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Re:The Life and Death of Open Source Companies by mbesto on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:43AM (#38770589)
Actually what you're referring to is specifically FOSS - free and open source which is used synonymously with 'open source'. Furthermore there is free as in gratis versus libre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre#%22Free_be...

> and the (traditional) motives for those two things don't merge terribly well.

So depending on whether your source is free as in beer or free as in speech, dictates what business strategy you might have.

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Re:The Life and Death of Open Source Companies by PeterZaitsev on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @07:07AM (#38771093)
Well there is Open Source and Free Software, which are quite similar. There is also "Freeware" and "Freemium" terms which use "Free as in Beer"
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