Open source software is software whose source code is accessible, and usable, without any obfuscation, compilation, or removal of information known to the people writing it. With notable exception for overly large, highly coupled projects (cough Firefox cough) which I consider a form of obfuscation.
Free software is software whose writer wrote a document stating that it cannot be used for un-free reasons (such as commercial software), and they added "no takebacksies" at the bottom so you have to do what they say.
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npub1ek…vwjxt
2026-06-14 15:41:54 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…2sfd
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