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what does "Free" mean? What do you think the author meant in this context? The problem is that "Free" means two things in English, which is why some like to us
by AceJohnny2 2y ago
what does "Free" mean? What do you think the author meant in this context?
The problem is that "Free" means two things in English, which is why some like to use the French/Spanish "Libre" instead, to separate the "free-as-in-speech" from "free-as-in-beer".
- deaddodo 2y agoI haven't seen a person in this thread use free in the sense of payment yet, it seems pretty disambiguous that everyone is referring to free in the sense of liberty. This includes the point the person you are responding to is trying to make, in which case they are noting that open source and source available are not the same things. Their point seems to be that open source, by the very definition to most who matter/care about the concept, implies the "free/libre/disentangled" portion. Whether that means derivative continuation (GPL and its kin) or not (MIT, BSD, etc). This is why the phrase "source available" exists.