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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 20:14:20 -0500
From: Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]>
To: Teresa Welsh <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Jesse List <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Open-source

   Teresa Welsh writes

> Open-source was used to mean "freely available"

   Open-source means that a piece of software comes with source code. This
   allows the purchaser of the software to study how the software works and
   to potentially change the way it works. This has nothing whatsover to
   do with the software being freely available.

> - perhaps a better term would have been "open access".

   Yes.

   There is still a difference between freely available and open access
   but this is more subtle and subject to debate.


   Cheers,

   Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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