• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The full saying is “Free as in Speech, not Free as in Beer”

    Basically the “Free” in free means that it’s free to do with as you please, modify, etc… But not free as in “here’s a free product…like getting a free beer”

    • Richard@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      That’s also confusing and it is not the full saying. The full saying is “free as in free speech, not free beer”.

      From the FSF website:

      Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.