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free software and open sourcefree software and open sourcePosted Sep 30, 2013 7:53 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Where are the RMSs of the world? by rsidd Parent article: 30 years of GNU
The differences in licences is trivial. IIRC there was one licence approved by FSF and rejected by OSI, and two approved by OSI but not FSF, but none of those licences had widespread use, so that can generally be ignored.
The bigger difference is that software on a locked, tivoised, or DRM-using device cannot be considered free software, but it can still be open source. Free software is about users really having freedom. Open source is about the developers favouring one development model over another.
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