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The common thing in both the Free Software and Open Source communities’ approaches is the open availability of the source code to developers. Free Software Community provides source codes to developers with the goal of which, that the user is free to do what he wishes with the software’s source code. It is more philosophical in nature. While, Open Source Community believes in providing these source codes to users, with the aim that collaborative efforts can bring productive results. It motivates the users to freely provide their suggestions for the source code and can append it to the existing one. For some years, the communities were working with the same concept and “Open Source” came to be used as a marketing term for free software to reduce the ambiguity, but somehow, it contributed to more problems. So the two communities parted and started their own way. So now you know, “Open Source” is really opposite to the original context of “Free Software”.