Sujet : Re: The problem with not owning the software
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.comp.os.windows-11 comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 02. Jan 2025, 22:59:46
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:09:27 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:47:42 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
You still don't own it, but now it's purely semantics.
“Semantics” means "meaning”. So “now it’s purely meaning”?
Correct. With FLOSS you don't own the software, as it's still just a
license, but you can do with it more or less whatever you want. Meaning
in practice it is indistinguishable from ownership.
So the distinction from actual ownership ... is that meaningful or not?
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