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Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub by dessant on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:05AM (#25314237)
That's possible, but they also mention "Completely open source" in the same list, and that would make "Free as in Freedom" redundant.
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Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub by zeusflight on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:10PM (#25316149)
I don't know what 'free' means for the project, but open source and 'free as in freedom' are not redundant these days. While open source is legally indistinguishable from free software, time has proven that open source software can be designed in non-free ways. Examples:

- Bloating codebase so much that it can't be audited, extended or forked easily

- Tightly controlling the development

- Open shims for opaque blobs

- Hiding documentation and troubleshooting information

Freedom is more about intent than definitions.

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