@henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 8 months agoWhat lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?message-square209fedilinkarrow-up1405arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1399arrow-down1message-squareWhat lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?@henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 8 months agomessage-square209fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareisthereanyseallinkfedilink0•8 months agoThere’s a clear difference between open source and free open source software. It is open source but the licence is not “free”. Not entirely at least
minus-squarechebralinkfedilink-1•8 months ago@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it…
minus-squareisthereanyseallinkfedilink2•8 months agoYou may have a point but there’s a difference anyway
minus-squarechebralinkfedilink0•8 months ago@heyoni I’m commenting from mastodon, I don’t even see any upvotes. Someone just started downvoting me because they ran out of arguments 🤷♂️
minus-square@heyoni@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•8 months agoThat must be why. On lemmy, like reddit you automatically upvote your own comments. Yours was at 0 probably cause mastodon doesn’t do that.
There’s a clear difference between open source and free open source software. It is open source but the licence is not “free”. Not entirely at least
@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it…
You may have a point but there’s a difference anyway
Did you unselect your upvote?
@heyoni I’m commenting from mastodon, I don’t even see any upvotes. Someone just started downvoting me because they ran out of arguments 🤷♂️
That must be why. On lemmy, like reddit you automatically upvote your own comments. Yours was at 0 probably cause mastodon doesn’t do that.