• peregus@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I’ve read the first part and it’s all “most often”, “may be”, so, technically, FOSS software is under the freeware umbrella.

      • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        3 hours ago

        Makes sense. In my mind when I think freeware tho I think discord, Spotify, free to use apps that have subscriptions and are proprietary. So I don’t like that GIMP is labeled with those

        • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          32 minutes ago

          It doesn’t even have to be something with subscriptions. Hardware drivers are (usually) freeware too for example. AMD is an unusual exception to that being open source. Then you have IK Multimedia who include a license key for their drivers and charge $50 to transfer it, and won’t even let the new owner of a product pay that if they bought it second-hand. Ask me how I know.

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      16 hours ago

      Yes, but the average person doesn’t give a shit about the technical definition. You know what is meant, don’t be pedantic about it.