On the Eve of completion of 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhiji, got a flash of thought on the parallels between the philosophies of Mahatma Gandhiji and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Thought of writing it as a blog post. Before writing it, did a bit of searching on the web and came across a few articles in which similar comparisons were presented. Nevertheless, decided to proceed with my version of the comparison: If you are new to Free and Open Source Software, let me tell you simply what it is. There are two types of software : Proprietary Software Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) A proprietary software is built by a company and sold for a price to its customers without letting them know the internal working mechanism of the software. The end-user is simply allowed to perform operations which the developer of that software has permitted. On the contrary, FOSS is built with the efforts of a diverse set of coders across the globe. The end-user has t