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Re:Highly automated digital audio workstation extensible in ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:23PM (#23910602)
Less ambiguous (in English) to use a loan-word and say "Ardour is libre and open source".
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Re:Highly automated digital audio workstation extensible in ... by Shared404 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:05PM (#23912346)
I would argue that it's not only ambiguous but harmful to use the word "free" to describe libre software at this point.

So many people have "Free means it steals your data" beaten into their heads at this point.

This is of course referring to the general population. I would assume that people on HN have no issues with Libre-Free vs Beer-Free.

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