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  • gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk
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    11 months ago

    No I am using the term for how it was originally used, back in the free software movement days in the 70s and 80s.

    Open source means nothing more than the source beeing open for all to see. What your are describing we called Free Software or later FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) but the open source part is redundant in that acronym.

    Also some started using Libre instead of Free, as Free sometimes are confused with Gratis. That is where the expression Free as in Freedom cones from.

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      11 months ago

      Fair enough. I suppose the terminology has evolved somewhat with time, and I can’t say I have much insight into a time period from before I was born.