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Re:Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? by LandR on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#22504443)
> "Open as in beer," if I may.

What does this mean?

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Re:Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? by tW4r on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:32PM (#22505475)
I understood it this way:

OpenTable sounds like it would be open-source, but it appears that it isn't

I think the parent comment to yours made a sarcastic take using a variation of the popular ambiguity Free as in Beer [1] that usually differentiates between free as 0 cost and free as freedom as a reaction to the OpenTable software being free to use rather than open-source

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

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Re:Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? by hunter2_ on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:23AM (#22510761)
Heh
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Re:Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? by sturza on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:54AM (#22504530)
Free as in beer
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Re:Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? by tialaramex on Friday March 06, 2020 @11:21AM (#22504791)
Well, do you want to drink an open can of beer?

You go into a bar, you order the IPA you liked someplace else, you see they've got a heap of cans... the bartender reaches under the bar and hands you... an open can.

No right? You don't want that one. Why the hell is it open?

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