| Prior to 1998, Free Software referred either to the Free Software Foundation and the watchful, micromanaging eye of Stallman or to one of thousands of different commercial, avocational, or university-research projects, processes, licenses, and ideologies that had a variety of names: sourceware, freeware, shareware, open software, public domain software, and so on | The word "free" carried with it an inescapable moral connotation: if freedom was an end in itself, it didn't matter whether free software also happened to be better, or more profitable for certain businesses in certain circumstances |
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| The term Open Source, by contrast, sought to encompass them all in one movement | org is now celebrating this one-year anniversary with a party Thursday night in San Francisco |
Since the code was first published on the Internet, thousands of individuals and organizations have downloaded it and made hundreds of contributions to the software.
10| The problem with it is twofold | After the Netscape announcement broke in January I did a lot of thinking about the next phase — the serious push to get "free software" accepted in the mainstream corporate world |
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| Open Source: A Multidisciplinary Approach | BOLD MOVE TO HARNESS CREATIVE POWER OF THOUSANDS OF INTERNET DEVELOPERS; COMPANY MAKES NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND COMMUNICATOR 4 |