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[-] gerdesj@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago

If I give you a free beer, you have one beer. If I give you the recipe, you can make your own beer. You do have to make your own open source beer or you can hire someone to do it for you or perhaps take you through the steps a few times until you've got it. With luck there will be a community of open source beer brewers with whom you can interact and improve those recipes.

Free software is free until it isn't! The illicit drugs industry works in a similar way (the first hit is for free).

[-] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Never read something more wrong about the subject. I sounds like you don't actually know what Free Software refers to, and that it has nothing to do with the price.

[-] menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah the free beer thing is what I use to explain what the "free" doesn't mean. "Free as in freedom. Not free as in free beer."

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