Is Open Source A Synonym For Clear Software?

The market for open source and unrestrained software is surging high with its appreciation in mainstream segment also. The free of charge software products like Linux or others are moving from the walled boundaries of servers to desktops and laptops. Recently, launched Ultra low cost laptops were supported on Linux and that came as a major breakthrough for it to garner some spotlight from tech analysts. But still the concept of autonomous software and open source software is not clear with many of us. We are confused at the basic level and interchanging the terms for each other. We employ the terms At liberty Source and Open Source interchangeably and get them confused with the concept that they are available for free. To some extent the concept gels with what we consider "available for free" on the contrary not in complete sense. The signal "free" is basically the misnomer. We confuse it with "free burgers" nevertheless it should be considered for "free speech". No doubt th
at some softwares from both the communities are available for unpaid of cost and are offered as free downloads however not all utilities. The two communities working with the aim of offering freedom to developers are working in the same direction on the other hand are literally and fundamentally different in their approaches. Till 1998, they were more or less same but after that the two movements separated with a different prospective, a different philosophy, and different motives. The commonality in both the approaches is the open availability of source code to developers but the aim backing this approach is different with both the communities. Where Free Software Community lays stress on providing source code to developers with the aim that user is free to do what he wish with the software"s source code. It is more philosophical in nature. However, Open Source believes in offering source code to users with the aim that collaborative efforts can bring more subtle result
s. It has motivation that users can freely provide their suggestions for the source code and can append it to the existing one if results provided are efficient enough. Both the communities lay stress on redistribution of code with no restrictions but the principles and motivations are different. Where one seeks the liberty provided to users; the other targets the development of more efficient software programs with collaborative approach. Against the philosophical methodology of Free Software Community, the Open Source Community is driven by more practical reasons. To some years the movements were working as a common alliance and Open Source was used as a marketing term for free software to reduce the ambiguity; but to worst it added more problems. So finally the two movements parted and started their own way. Where the software developed by open source are more or less fits to zero-cost category, nothing like that can be defined for free software. To define it better,
nothing which is free of cost can be a tailored fit for both the communities but cannot be turned off even. Full text: http://computerandtechnologies.com/technology/news_2008-07-21-17-30-03-396.html