[postgis-users] free software and open source (fwd)

[Rich Shepard]

  Beware the troll!

  I fell for this earlier today when hs posted to the GRASS mail list. It's
not a serious request.

Rich

-- 
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
<http://www.appl-ecosys.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:58:50 +0000
From: Saurabh Data <saurabhdata at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sd at dil.in,
     PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
To: mysql at lists.mysql.com
Subject: [postgis-users] free software and open source

Dear Users

Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between "open source"
and "free software".

Many Thanks

Saurabh Data



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Saurabh Data
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
U.K.

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