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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by tgma on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:05AM (#45023632)
If they were really the same, you should flip the question around. You do realize the Open Source folks invented that phrase explicitly to avoid using (and dare I say to undermine) the term Free Software?
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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by SlowTao on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:10AM (#45023681)
Same way Vegan was forked to Plant based diet, to strip out the ethics question.
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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by goku12 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:56AM (#45028316)
> Vegan was forked to Plant based diet

That's news to me! But no. Open source philosophy isn't free software stripped of its ethics question. I have written an essay/article/novel/epic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027202

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