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jazzyjackson 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from I...

RMS may have coined free software as a term and legal construct via licensing but he wasn’t the first to give software away for free

akimbostrawman 69 days ago [–]

>but he wasn’t the first to give software away for free

They never claimed he was and it's irrelevant because free software has nothing to do with "giving software away for free"

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

jazzyjackson 68 days ago | [–]

Yea sounds like a marketing problem to try and take ownership of how a common word is used

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