• Łumało [he/him]
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      211 months ago

      The qeustion would rather be, why shouldn’t software be free? Because there is no good reason it shouldn’t be.

        • Łumało [he/him]
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          1111 months ago

          I forgot not everyone knows what free software means. Free as in freedom not free as in gratis. The other one has good, even great reasons for existing as you’ve said people need to pay the bills. The first one does not.

            • Łumało [he/him]
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              411 months ago

              Yeah, the english language has a problem with that. But not just English!

              Polish does too, the translation would be “Wolne oprogramowanie”. However wolne can be understood both as free and… Slow.

              Yeah, slow software lmao

              If you’d like to know more about software freedom checkout the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, of course the GNU project and some Linux youtubers like Distrotube and the like.

          • @OrekiWoof@lemmy.ml
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            210 months ago

            This definition of “free” in the context of software is used only in specific circles. It’s confusing for everyone else and another word should be used.

        • duderium [he/him]
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          211 months ago

          Perhaps if we built a world in which no one needed to worry about necessities, it would not be even excusable to charge money for commodities?