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brodouevencodelast Friday at 4:27 PM1 replyview on HN

The early mantras of OSS included "free as in speech" and "free as in beer".


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mghackerladylast Friday at 5:51 PM

Those were mantras of the Free Software movement. The open source movement (despite creating a lot of free software) was never about the moral stance of software freedom, but the practical benefits