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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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    Hmmm no free software can be closed source. Neither is the subset of the other but they intersect

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      Free software, as defined by the fsf, preserves the users freedom to study, change and distribute the software. The right to study entails that the source code be made available: Wikipedia article. Calibre is licensed as GPL3, thus it is free software as defined by the fsf.

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        You’re absolutely correct. Not to be confused with freeware which is more ambiguous and most often proprietary (though not always).

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware

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