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Digging deeper Oss or Free software…..

There has been a gruesome debate about the point that which is the best alternative for us proprietary software the answer was oss and free software …But! This was not to stop the compartmentalization that differences started inculcating between the oss and free philosophies…. According to the stalwarts of both the notions Richard Stallman, Eric Steven Raymond both give theories which though have a considerable intersection but still differ in implementation…The Free software movement can be surely called the father of the strong non-proprietary paradigm but oss can be called as its most objective implementation…also it can be said Free software movement talks of freedom to programmers, hackers and society in general while OSS talks of a robust business model implementation… But inevitably in the profit centric society a compromise is desirable…OSS does this by presenting an a replaceable alternative to proprietary software .Richard talks of Free software in a spiritual sense and has made considerable efforts to drive the movement….but he also is essential to the growth of OSS as not only a father to the movement but as a collaborating messiah for we dollar driven people.. So where does OSS draw a line to take what is feasible from free software a point in this regard is the GPL and also the notion of bazaar style development which can be both internal, customer centric in the case of OSS.. At last the results of the Netscape Mozilla project our with us… So what is your choice?