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   NiceMicro (nicemicro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:13:28 JST NiceMicro

   Me inserting Free Software into off-topic threads on #Fosstodon:

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:13:26 JST 翠星石

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     • MattZ
     @colinsmatt11 Putting free software into "fosstdon" is often not the same putting gratis, source available, proprietary software ("FOSS") into "fosstdon".
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:13:27 JST MattZ

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     @nicemicro Putting Foss in Fosstodon.
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     dcz (dcz@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:25:16 JST dcz

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     • MattZ

     @Suiseiseki @colinsmatt11 Source available is not "FOSS" by any measure!

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:33:29 JST 翠星石

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     • dcz
     @dcz Unfortunately the only natural meaning of "open source" is source-available.
     It's very difficult to explain that "open source" is meant to refer to the 10 requirements of the "open source definition": https://opensource.org/osd (yes, clownflared and proprietary software in the form of JavaScript), so most people think on hearing "open source", that "the source is publicly available".
     
     The word free has semi-recently is commonly used incorrectly to mean things like; free of charge and also even for things that aren't even gratis, like 2 for the price of 1 deals, so tacking that onto "open source" is just a recipe for confusion and acceptance of proprietary software.
     
     
     With free software, all it takes to rectify any confusion is: "When I say free, I correctly use free to mean freedom, not incorrectly to mean free as in price" and any listeners will no longer be confused.