What Is Open Source Software?
Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyrightholder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose
What is free software?
Free software, software libre, or libre software is computer software that is distributed along with its source code, and is released under a software license that guarantee users the freedom to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, adapt/modify, and distribute the original software and the adapted/changed versions.
What is FOSS?
Free and open source software is software’s anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.
Myths about Microsoft Technologies?
If someone says Microsoft technologies are not committed to FOSS and FOSS is just for Linux. I would like to say those baggers have no idea what he talking about. My first answer is tell them what free and open source software’s is. Because they telling like that without knowing what is it?
Here things you need to look at,
Microsoft have several Open source projects and most of them are free to use under GNU GPL license and MS-PL license. If you want to contribute to those community driven projects yes, You can?
Go and check http://www.codeplex.com/, http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx, http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/, http://www.asp.net/mvc/open-source, https://msopentech.com/, and http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/those are high quality free and open source projects that driven by Microsoft on Microsoft technologies.
If someone says Linux is all about FOSS. That’s bullshit, Please check the red hat Linux prices. You will get faint. Its opens source but not definitely free.
Regarding free software’s that Microsoft provided lot of Dev tools comes with free editions of it (Express). Visual studio, SQL Server etc.
Microsoft web matrix id superb enterprise driven tool totally free. I’m just gave some examples on Dev tools. There is more other free software’s as well
Think again when you are going to say “Microsoft is all about Money driven Projects”.
