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“Commercial” is not the opposite of Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)

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www.dwheeler.com; By David A. Wheeler 		Mail this story
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As FLOSS has become more prominent in the computer industry, many speakers have tried to differentiate FLOSS from software released under other license terms. That’s fine, but some people have unfortunately been trying to use the term “commercial” as something distinct from FLOSS.

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