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All money probably went into NVIDIA GPUs (lemmy.world)
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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago

Open source doesn't mean free for everyone for every purpose

[-] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 41 points 1 month ago

Quote from the Open Source Initiative definition of Open Source:

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Not everyone agrees:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions.

First, some open source licenses are too restrictive, so they do not qualify as free licenses. For example, Open Watcom is nonfree because its license does not allow making a modified version and using it privately. Fortunately, few programs use such licenses.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Of course they don't qualify as free licences but they are still open source

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, that was my point.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah we agree

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Ah yes 2026 where we let corporations define our language for their own goals

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, quote from your Bible. It will always be right.

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