Difference between Free Software and Open Source
Adam Debus wrote:
Actually, I believe you will find that Linux was originally
created
because Linus had spare time on his hands, and wanted a version of Unix that
could run on 386 computers. GNU/Hurd was created as an open source project,
from the start, with the intent of supplying a version of Unix for little or
no cost.
Actually, the GNU project has nothing to do with "Open Source" and never
did. GNU started over a decade before the term "Open Source" was coined or
before that movement began. The GNU project launched the "Free Software"
movement which has profoundly different philosophical underpinnings.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html has more
information on this.