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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What is FOSS? I'm seriously asking

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free and Open Source Software

(free as in freedom)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but is free as in beer. As the word FLOSS exist: Free, Libre and Open Source Software.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Libre just translates to free.

So that term is redundant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Incorrect. Something can be free (as in free beer) without being libre (free as in freedom) and something can be libre without being free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bro wants to fact-check me on my own language lmao.

Libre means free as in freedom.

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