Open Source And Internet Freedom Be Free

Open source projects through certificates retain ownership of the source code to the community. licenses such as the General Public License (GPL) and the Creative Commons (CC) are examples of how software and creative works can be distributed, shared and used without a person or company that claims ownership. By assigning this "freedom" at work, others in the community with similar interests add to the project knowing that their contribution remains publicly owned. This does not mean that work should be "free" of charge, although most retain their copyright licenses provides the source or origin of the original work can not be loaded.

In the framework of the Open Source Initiative, which is called here instead of the Free Software Foundation, just to avoid the confusion of the word "free" in the title.

If you use a gym you expect to pay a subscription for use of equipment, buildings, staff time. Trip to the gym, you use fuel and other resources, all you pay directly. But when we use the Internet, it becomes a different scenario. Most have a broadband subscription service or pay as you use the connection, allowing their computer or mobile phone to connect to the internet, but once on the web there are a few examples of how we pay for the services we user. For example, consider the Google search engine. Without knowing the number of machines or architecture that runs the service, I can only guess that there are literally thousands of servers dedicated to collecting, indexing and storing the contents of the site just respond to our query requests for everything to be paid otherwise normal advertising. But if these services were free, how many people would use them?

So free has a different concept of freedom of the software is committed to copyright, even if their symbiotic relationship with the Internet. Although there are numerous examples, such as search engines, where the application has its own, owned, but the service is free there are also numerous examples of where open source software used as part of remuneration for the service. The most common of these is the large number of Web servers is to use operating systems based on Linux and Apache HTTP Server, which does not have applications that will be charged, but the establishment, installation and maintenance of the server. These, of course, can not be attributed directly to visitors of these pages, but is absorbed by the website owners the cost of having a web presence.

The same can be said of the applications we use. Applications, "Wiki", "osCommerce", "Magenta", "phpBB", "Vanilla" are all examples of web applications, where the ownership of copyright will remain in force.