@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it…
@isthereanydeal You might want to doublecheck you assumptions. Grayjay doesn’t fit in neither the GNU definition of “free software”, nor the OSI definition of “open source”. And the difference isn’t even as clear as you think, since even Richard Stallman writes “The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs.”
There’s a clear difference between open source and free open source software. It is open source but the licence is not “free”. Not entirely at least
@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it…
You may have a point but there’s a difference anyway
@isthereanydeal You might want to doublecheck you assumptions. Grayjay doesn’t fit in neither the GNU definition of “free software”, nor the OSI definition of “open source”. And the difference isn’t even as clear as you think, since even Richard Stallman writes “The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs.”
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
https://opensource.org/osd
Did you unselect your upvote?
@heyoni I’m commenting from mastodon, I don’t even see any upvotes. Someone just started downvoting me because they ran out of arguments 🤷♂️
That must be why. On lemmy, like reddit you automatically upvote your own comments. Yours was at 0 probably cause mastodon doesn’t do that.