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On 2026/7/1 11:28:50, Daniel70 wrote:
On 1/07/2026 4:51 am, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2026-06-30, german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> wrote:
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free means if you want, you could get the source, rewrite it
et do a another version of the software !
may be the name will be "caca version" because, a team is
10000 peoples !
Compare "free as in speech" with "free as in beer".
To me, "free as in speech" is ME being able to say whatever I want .... whereas with "free as in beer" that's someone wanting to get my
attention to SELL me something (maybe a brand of beer!!).
Am I wrong??
In practice, yes.
The two "free"s are usually brought up in the context of software; that
which is "free as in speech", usually applied to open source, means you
are free to do whatever you want with it, including changing all sorts
of settings; it usually doesn't cost anything either, though sometimes
(e. g. some Linux distributions, AIUI) there is a minor charge for the convenience; the point usually being made when the two "free"s are
brought up is that it's not cost that is the main freedom being
considered. Free as in beer would be software that's free to download
and use, but over which you may have little choice about how it works (including settings), or even information on how it works - it usually
_isn't_ source-code available, for example. A _good_ (IMO) example of free-as-in-beer software is IrfanView (for private use - though Irfan
does accept donations); there are plenty of bad examples, such as those
that include malware or at least ad.s and information-grathering (I
think many "app"s, and browser add-ons, are such). I'll leave others to
give examples of good (and bad - there must be some!) free-as-in-speech softwares.
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