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Linux is free-as-in-speech software. That means I could clone it in a week and sell a competing product when, say Ubuntu, starts to implode. Free-as-in-beer sof
by SolarNet 10y ago
Linux is free-as-in-speech software. That means I could clone it in a week and sell a competing product when, say Ubuntu, starts to implode. Free-as-in-beer software doesn't have that.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoI think this is a false dichotomy, Linux is both free as in beer (unless you choose to pay for it) and free as in speech.
- SolarNet 10y agoYou're right it's not a dichotomy, but the property free-as-in-speech is the one that helps here, free-as-in-beer doesn't matter either way in this case (besides it's initial popularity).