There’s a long standing argument over the differences between “open-source” software and “free” software.

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While no one would argue there aren’t some differences between open-source and commercial software, there is very little difference between the cost and quality of the software.

LibreOffice: LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. OpenOffice: Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite.

The difference in reasons why people who create, manage, and develop open-source and free software, and why end users consume it is a major philosophical disconnect.

On this subject, I had an interesting email conversation with Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, who differentiated for me the difference between “open source” and ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part feature on software policy. Part one examines the license model differences between open source and commercial software. Next week's instalment will ...

Just because there may be a foundation associated with an open source project, it doesn’t mean that it’s an established, gold-standard foundation.

Morozov writes that the difference between the two is that free software emphasizes users and that open source emphasizes developers.