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Open source != noncommercial. Proprietary != commercial. Stop abusing those words and twisting their meanings please.

• halo 17y ago
  I apologise. It's rather hard to get the exact terminology correct, let alone on an ad-hoc basis while trying to remain somewhat readable. As I was writing, my focus was on trying to avoid the loaded term "free". I'm also not exactly sure what the correct term is to refer to the common situation of having free-to-download open-source software, because "open-source freeware" looks utterly ridiculous. That said, in the overwhelming majority of cases, even my misuse of wording is accurate.
  • omouse 17y ago
    I'm also not exactly sure what the correct term is to refer to the common situation of having free-to-download open-source software, because "open-source freeware" looks utterly ridiculous. It would be called noncommercial open source software or noncommercial free software. The point is to separate the aspect of buying software from the availability of its source code and whatever freedoms are associated with that.