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What's the difference between open-source and free software /g/?
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What's the difference between open-source and free software /g/?
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>>52156714
what's the difference between anime posters and cancer?
[spoiler]nothing[/spoiler]
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Open source software is a subset of free software
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>>52156727
>spoiler tags on /g/
>being this much of a newfag
>calling others cancer
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>>52156746
>what is satire
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>>52156749
>I was only pretending to be retarded
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>>52156762
>well this is awkward
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>>52156714
Two Maki threads?
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>>52156779
fuck off kike
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>>52156714
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.en.html
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>>52156793
What?
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Open Source -> Practical reasons
Free Software -> Political reasons

Most open source software is also free software, so it doesn't really matter.
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>>52156714
The philosophy.
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>>52156714
"open source" what people who want to make money call free software. "free software" is what people with severe autism call open source (and then complain about how the english language makes the term "free" confusing since it can mean both "gratis" and "libre")
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>>52156714
Everything should be free software.
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