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I contribute nothing but you owe me everything (programming.dev)

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The most important part of FLOSS is "F", apparently.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. But the source code should also be available at no cost, and you should be able to build it yourself right? So freedom should be a superset of free.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Being able to build it yourself is a must: otherwise you can't make/share changes (and use changes from others).

I lean towards a "pay want you want" models (including 0) as DRM is pointless. But no, I do not believe binaries or code must cost nothing for it to still be free software.

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