Well, at least the Brazilians seem not to distinguish much between the terms you mentioned.

"A fonte aberta e o software livre (“código aberto”, para abreviar) devem ser distribuídos com o código-fonte."
(Taken from conjur.estadao.com.br)

Basically stating that free "open source" software (software with "opened code") has to be distributed with source code.

I don't think the dissent arising here comes from anything being "lost in translation".

"and as it is not script because it is executed direclty[sic]" - The only thing I have ever heard of remotely resembling this was a processor core that could execute Java bytecode directly. For everything else, the source code is either compiled to machine code and executed by the processor or interpreted, like PHP, JavaScript and your beloved TI-programs you can write directly with the calculator.
The Wikipedia on TI-Basic


I believe I speak for many here when I beg you to at least try and get some structure into your replys. Punctuation in Portuguese writing is not unheard of, to my knowledge. And please try to put your claims onto some credible foundation. I - we - are gladly persuaded by solid proof. Posting the source code of your video driver is not proof, though. At least not for it being executed "open source", in your understanding of the term.

I don't know why all of the confusion about open source. I'm brazilian and I don't think we have problems about that. Off course, the press sometimes say bullshit, but this time I think the definition posted by TheHiveMind is correct, maybe he just understood wrong:


What they're saying is that "Free Software" (sofware livre) and "Open Source" software (which means almost the same; Open Source was just introduced because "Free Software" impacts the industry a lot because of the word "free") must be distributed with their source-code, which is correct. To tell the truth, it's difficult to see people talking about "código de fonte aberta"; or they say "software livre" or use the english "Open Source".

To clarifly some things i suggest watching "Revolution OS" (http://www.revolution-os.com/) that gives the right definitions about "free software", "open source", linux ... and reading "The Open Source Definition" (http://perens.com/OSD.html).


Rayden, I don't know if you're portuguese, but in brazilian portuguese that's not the case.

see ya
r0d

In Soviet Russia, program runs YOU!!!

what a load of ....


when you realise you are wrong blame it on translation ..
did the dog eat your homework much?

there are differences between portugues-brasileiro e portugues -portugues i will give you an example like this film "the girl next dor" in portuguese "a miuda da porta ao lado" this is wrong that's not the meaning of the sentence the right is "a miuda do lado" understood... by the way i'm half portuguese and half german... "open source" -"codigo aberto" i never say that an script execute directly in machine well there are more than one machine that can do it, but that's another story what i say is that linux like freebsd use many scripts in order to run there are quite a lot of scripts on these two platforms if you wan more detail http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripts t.r. another thing is that i'm not blaming the translation what i'm saying is that and since the begin the video driver is run because a script tell's it what to do... and people are confusing that is not that way the video driver is toitally compiled that's wrong if tha was right we don't need to configure our x-server script in order for it to run under some special conditions and favored to us, another point is that your sound card is not totally compiled it uses some script's to run do you want more examples what i say from the begin and many people have change the thread to something else is freebsd and linux and all the unix system since the bsd-unix 1.0 run we the help of scripts....

Wow Rayden, what a paragraph
If you want to understand what Rayden said in his last post, you can try it here (maybe it isn't the exact transcription of Rayden's post, but the meaning is the same...)

ha ha ha muito engracado... é pena nao ser em video...

The video

so I'm Chico and you are Groucho...

No, I'm sorry, the problem is that you're both