7 Misconceptions About Free Software (Or Are They Lies?)
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A speaker from the Free Software Foundation Europe lists and refutes seven common misunderstandings about Free Software: that it is free of cost, that you can’t make money with it, that it’s useless if you can’t program, that modifying software obliges you to publish changes, that the GPL only works in the USA, that terms like Free Software/Open Source/FOSS/FLOSS refer to different things, and that Linus Torvalds invented Free Software in 1992. The talk gives short, practical rebuttals to each myth for use in work or everyday conversations.
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