In the second section, I wrote "Open source software is software not being protected by copyrights". However, this is not true. The licenses used for non-proprietary software actually relies on copyright laws to guarantee the users' freedoms of use, redistribution etc. Because without partly relying on copyright, the software would become public domain, thus allowing everyone to change a copy or modification into proprietary software (retrieved 11 February, 2010 from: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html).
Thus I changed it into "Open source software is software that is not proprietary". This may still seem far from perfect if read here, but the context makes sure things are set right this way.
Many thanks to "Vanadium" from the ubuntu-nl.org forum section, for pointing this mistake out.
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