• Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I forgot not everyone knows what free software means. Free as in freedom not free as in gratis. The other one has good, even great reasons for existing as you’ve said people need to pay the bills. The first one does not.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, the english language has a problem with that. But not just English!

        Polish does too, the translation would be “Wolne oprogramowanie”. However wolne can be understood both as free and… Slow.

        Yeah, slow software lmao

        If you’d like to know more about software freedom checkout the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, of course the GNU project and some Linux youtubers like Distrotube and the like.

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      1 year ago

      This definition of “free” in the context of software is used only in specific circles. It’s confusing for everyone else and another word should be used.