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Ghost

what about licensing: (paid|freeware|opensource)?

I understand the POV of Free Software people, but they really choose an ambiguous name. If you have to explain the name: "as free as in beer", you have a bad name my friend.

If they wanted to be clear about freedom they should have used a language that made clear the distinction like LibreOffice crowd did.

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Ben Sinclair

The trouble with that is that you assume that licensing(paid) and licensing(opensource) are mutually exclusive, but they're not.

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Ghost • Edited

then:

Price: (free|paid)
Licencing: (propietary|opensource)

in any case, what FOSS sw is forcefully paid?, could FOSS sw be paid only? if you have all the ingredients how can you force a payment?

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Rafael Gomes (Gomex)

Great! I will update soon ;)

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Rafael Gomes (Gomex)

Done ;)