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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Reliablesources (talk | contribs) at 00:28, 14 February 2009 (Software different from its use). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Hi, re copyright tag, I created this new page with text from the GFDL lincesed wiki freeopensourcesoftware.org for which I'm the owner and primary maintainer. I will remove the tag. Reliablesources 21:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC) 21:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

An attribution tag has been added to the bottom of the article. Somno (talk) 03:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Undo Business Model changes

Hi, I think the 4 Feb updates were well intentioned, but muddied the water a bit. I undid them because they confused the software with the business model, which as Richard Stallman has been explaining since the beginning is the wrong view. Whether you sell FOSS in binary has nothing to do with the issue, the question is does the software license contain wording that allows the source to be available, modified, and redistributed without restricting your rights to do whatever you want with it in the future, including sell it yourself if you want. FOSS has been sold since it's creation. It remains FOSS. The organizations that use it may or may not be commercial.

Specifically, the 4 Feb update changed that COSS contains elements of FOSS, to COSS "can be sold as" FOSS, which is the opposite of the intent of the term and the article.

Also, the update added the term "commercial FOSS", which is a new term and the opposite direction from the intent to simplify, and mistakes the software as an object with how it might be used. Reliablesources 00:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

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