Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998 the organization added a board of directors.Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005. The current president is Michael Tiemann.

Facts:

• Open Source is a free software!!!
• Open Source comes from Netscape Communications Corporation
• Open Source is a public domain like WIKIPEDIA and GOOGLE CHROME

Questions:

• ¿Why is it called Open source?
• Because The program publishes the code

Although born from the same history of Unix, Internet free software, and the hacker culture as the free software movement launched by Richard Stallman and his Free Software

Foundation, the Open Source Initiative was formed and chose the term open source, in Michael Tiemann's words, to "dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with 'free software' in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape.

Stallman counter-charges that OSI's pragmatic focus on a model for software development and marketing ignores what he considers to be the central "ethical imperative" and the focus on "freedom" that underlies free software, as he defines it, and blurs the distinction with semi-free or wholly proprietary software.

Notes

Freeware=Free=Public Domain-You can even sell it if you want

Semi-Free=Shareware-Voluntary buying of the program-DONATIONS

Wholly Proprietary-buy liscense to use it

SOURCE:WIKIPEDIA