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Non-free software, don't think about using it for anything real.

• sigzero 13y ago
  Oh that's right, you can't make anything real with software you pay for. I had almost forgotten.
  • flyinglizard 13y ago
    Nearly impossible in this kind of project. Even if it spawns out of a commercial entity, these kind of things require a wide community acceptance and contribution to be taken seriously and be really useful.
    • sigzero 13y ago
      I mostly agree. It could always find a niche somewhere. My snark was about "it's not free so don't use it".
  • JoshTriplett 13y ago
    While the term "free" can be ambiguous, I've found that the specific phrase "non-free" (as opposed to "paid" or "commercial" or similar) almost always tends to mean "proprietary", as an antonym of "Free Software" or "Open Source". So, I'd read the comment you replied to as "not Open Source", which I likewise consider a fatal flaw in tools I depend on for software development and build systems. No community around it, no recourse if the original author loses interest (which looks like the case here), and no ability to work on it myself.
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