"Do not mistake free free of free software", they say, largely because the confusion may be in English, not in Castilian. I repeat again and again, say it has to be that way, and I think it really should be.
I learn in the red pill oracle that will force you to pay for OpenSolaris , if you download, just a trial, then you are obligated to pay a support contract and services. To me, that stops you from being free. Would be free if someone else had he was able to continue to maintain a free version that is not oracle. But this is not true.
Linux is free not only because it is open source, but because there are those who maintain that I can download updates for free. If there is a community or a company to do, which makes a payment product has kidnapped.
next thing coming is mySql. None other than Oracle is able to keep it as free software is free. The day you charge for mySql, the theory says that anyone can make a fork. The practice is that software is a volume that involves knowledge such that it will be free, however it is open source. Will become a base Data kidnapped, because the software is not free just because they release their sources, must also be free knowledge on that software.
it be free is not the same that is free, but if there is a free version, is a symptom that is not free. Free does not mean free, but free themselves involved free. Or otherwise, if not free is not free.
MySQL is not free, because almost everyone is aware of what to do oracle, and earrings to see if the forks are as brave MariaDB or others are able to carry it forward. If they can do it free.
I hope that someday the FSF extend their considerations to determine whether a software volume is considered free software and the widespread knowledge about it. I know now which should be the measure, but it is now clear that Linux is free and it is not MySQL, Ruby on Rails is free, and java is not. There must be more than one leg to hold a volume of a particular software, and some at least should be free.
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