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the world using made up of normies, but hacker news isn't. so here a clarification is absolutely necessary. and which english word would you suggest intuitivel
by em-bee 2y ago
the world using made up of normies, but hacker news isn't. so here a clarification is absolutely necessary.
and which english word would you suggest intuitively communicates the meaning of free as in free to modify and share? there isn't one because the concept itself is unfamiliar to most people.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoLibre is technically not an English word, but hopefully understandable enough ?
- lukan 2y ago"free as in free to modify and share" If you add a free to use, I would agree. For me it has both meanings. And in your definition it is kind of implicated, but in others not necessarily. " To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis." The last part is bothering me. Because yes, de facto it means free as in beer. I don't have to pay money to download the source and run my own version, except paying for my infrastructure.
- em-bee 2y agode facto it means free as in beer but it shouldn't, that's one of the problems. developers need to be paid. more and more projects are in trouble because of this expectation that i don't need to pay for libre software.