[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Scott Dorsey]

Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I would argue that the one of the big interests at the enterprise
>level in Linux is its perceived "free" cost. There is more than
>one business case that has been pushed which compares license
>costs to Linux (free) vs. its competition (expensive up front
>licenses).

Free != Open Source

Open Source != Public Domain

Source-Licensed != Free (in the sense of speech)

Source-Licensed may equal Free (in the sense of beer).

There are plenty of ways to make software available to people who need it
at a cost they are willing to pay (even if that cost is zero) and to make
source code availlable to people who need it without opening it up to the
extent of the GPL or BSD licenses or even at all.
--scott
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