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Discussion on: Working in Public: how can we solve the problems of open source?

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Sriram Ramkrishna

The difference is open source is a software development model that has a social contract with the community to socialize the cost of development by being more open through an open source license.

Free Software is a social movement that believes that the source code should be available to all - based on the 4 freedoms:

I used to ask this as an interview question :D