Free as in freedom, not as in free beer.
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pwnicholson@lemmy.world 1 month agoI thought free software was when you were the product and non-free software actually supported developers.
Or do you mean non-OSS?
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I thought we switched to libre for that definition and since then used free only as in free beer.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I thought we switched to libre
Maybe some people did. Thing is there’s a whole rest-of-the-world out there, and they didn’t necessarily get the memo or are happy with the existing way.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Libre (from French) is sometimes used to solve the ambiguity of the word free in the English language, but it sounds kinda awkward in English and there’s certainly no consensus that this should be the official replacement, or that the term free even needs replacement.
Furthermore, the FSF who originally came up with the idea of “free software” still exists and is still called the Free Software Foundation, though Stallman uses both terms interchangeably.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yeah, the wording is confusing. A long time ago, there was no paid software, there was only software where you got the source code and other software where e.g. it was pre-installed on some hardware and the manufacturer didn’t want to give the source code.
In that time, a whole movement started fighting for software freedom, so they called their software “free”.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean non-Free Software.
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
“Free Software” is a defined term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software