how can linux be free?

[alexandergre]

How can Linux be free?
why its free?


(im doing a reserch about operativsystems (linux, windows, mac))

 

[kof2000]

because it is open source.

 

[alexandergre]

why have they made it freesource?
and what is the real meaning of freesource? (is it because the users can edit or change something in lunix, make it better?)

 

[kof2000]

source code is free to the public to whoever want to customize their own not like microsoft's codes are closed source that you have to buy their software.

 

[alexandergre]

yes but you have to know the language . what is the language to costumize?

 

[_simon_]

Some blurb for you:

The Penguin's Guide to Linux
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003740/history.html

History of Linux
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux/

The Complete Concise History of GNU/Linux
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/complete-concise-history-of-gnulinux.html

 

[PC eye]

why have they made it freesource?
and what is the real meaning of freesource? (is it because the users can edit or change something in lunix, make it better?)

If someone develops a new program, or patch for running Windows compatable software on a Linux system, or an improvement for a specific distro that can be submitted and see approval for general use in any newer revision. That's why they call it an "open" type of OS. Originally Linux was based on the UNIX/Novell platform which goes back decades before the first desktop model pcs were introduced with the exception of the 8086s and 8088s.

 

[alexandergre]

very very useful, thank you