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Open Source vs Noncommercial

Open Source vs Noncommercial

Posted Jan 22, 2004 17:42 UTC (Thu) by syntaxis (subscriber, #18897)
In reply to: Open Source vs Noncommercial by giraffedata
Parent article: Open Source in Politics

"there is very little closed-source non-commercial software in the world."

Nonsense.

What most people think of as "Freeware" is software provided free of charge with no strings attached, but without the source code. Such software is both closed-source and non-commercial.


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