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    Don't judge me I know that frequently they represent almost the same softwares but is just a matter of principles. (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 1 year ago by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    IMO both of these ended up being poor names.

    "Open source" can be co-opted to mean any project with public source code even if it's not open contribution (think SQLite, and many of the projects effectively run by major tech corporations).

    "Free software" falls victim to the eternal mixup with freeware, requiring the endless repetition of the "beer vs. speech" analogy.

    I personally think "Libre software" is the term that best encapsulates the intended meaning while being unambiguous and not vulnerable to misinterpretation.

    [–] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    It's FOSS not clear enough?

    [–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Open Source: The source is available to inspect for security issues and can be improved upon by anybody who wants to participate. Most of the times the software development is financed by donations in cash from users or in time from developers.

    Free software: Software you get for free, usually paid for by siphoning off data, running ads (which include trackers), ... sometimes open source, most of the times closed source.

    [–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No, that's free software, small f. Free Software, capital F, is software which respects your four fundamental software freedoms: to run, study, redistribute, and modify the software.

    Open Source is a capitalist trick to make the source code available without necessarily preserving those freedoms.

    [–] usrsbin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Open-source preserves these freedoms. Source-available is the term for software that doesn't respect user freedoms, but allows to access the source code.

    [–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Indeed, most open source software is available under licenses like GPL, which enforces the preservation of those freedoms.