Don't judge me I know that frequently they represent almost the same softwares but is just a matter of principles.
Don't judge me I know that frequently they represent almost the same softwares but is just a matter of principles.
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IMO both of these ended up being poor names.
"Open source" can be co-opted to mean any project with public source code even if it's not open contribution (think SQLite, and many of the projects effectively run by major tech corporations).
"Free software" falls victim to the eternal mixup with freeware, requiring the endless repetition of the "beer vs. speech" analogy.
I personally think "Libre software" is the term that best encapsulates the intended meaning while being unambiguous and not vulnerable to misinterpretation.
It's FOSS not clear enough?
FLOSS
More people need to hear that either way
FOSS conflates the two different philosophies
"Freedom-respecting software" is another less ambiguous term.
That would be a better description indeed.
English language...
Many other languages have different words for each type of free
And yet our professors at university translated "free software" using our word meaning "free of charge", my ears bled. It should have been libre software from the beginning.
What sucks more was my CS teacher translating term "Open source" as free of cost lol. How the fuck