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Re:Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop by geor9e on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:50PM (#39082898)
Is this some sort of HN meme where we purposely use the wrong word sense of "free" in order to stir a semantic argument?
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Re:Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop by diffeomorphism on Monday January 22, 2024 @06:23AM (#39088334)
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

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Re:Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop by geor9e on Monday January 22, 2024 @08:34PM (#39098334)
I hate this. That's not what free means to 99% of consumers. I refuse to use it that way.
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