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0 pointsjprete1y ago0 comments

I think people are looking for the term "freeware" although the connotations don't match.

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Agreed, but the "connotations don't match" is mostly because the folks who chose to call it open source wanted the marketing benefits of doing so. Otherwise it'd match pretty well.

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sho_hn1y ago

Agreed, but the "connotations don't match" is mostly because the folks who chose to call it open source wanted the marketing benefits of doing so. Otherwise it'd match pretty well.

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