• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    2 个月前

    Free as in freedom? Or free as in for free and at no charge?

    Because the nature of FOSS makes it REALLY difficult to take away either.

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      Because the nature of FOSS makes it REALLY difficult to take away either.

      RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu pro… FOSS and GPL have nothing to do with the price of the product

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        Something with an open source cannot be paywalled. You can charge for it, or is in things that your charge for, but you can’t make a purchase the only way to get it.

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          You can completely invalidate its context, such as the way Google is going with Android. (I’m just speaking generally and possibly off-topic here.)