Ah, so you mean... [LWN.net]

Ah, so you mean...

Posted Mar 27, 2006 3:08 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: A day in the life of the CentOS team by hpp
Parent article: A day in the life of the CentOS team

You would have been understood immediately if you used the more explicit terms Free vs. Proprietary:

Proprietary: closed source, single vendor, support from one vendor, don't tinker
Free: multiple vendors, support from multiple sources (optionally a vendor, generally on-line, also in-house), freedom to tinker and adapt

I think we don't need "Open Source" any more.

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Ah, so you mean...

Posted Mar 27, 2006 14:42 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Actually, for proprietary, I'd leave out "closed source" and "don't tinker".

And being even more pedantic, "proprietary" comes from "property", meaning "owned" - and that INCLUDES LINUX! Okay, we don't use that word that way any more, but we can thank the marketing slogan "Unix is Proprietary, Windows is Open" for that ...

Cheers,
Wol