secret300@lemmy.sdf.org to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoI don't know why but it pissed me off so much that they called gimp "freeware"www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkI don't know why but it pissed me off so much that they called gimp "freeware"www.tomshardware.comsecret300@lemmy.sdf.org to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square12linkfedilink
minus-squareLka1988@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoFreeware = Free software Technically true.
minus-squaresecret300@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
minus-squareperegus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoI’ve read the first part and it’s all “most often”, “may be”, so, technically, FOSS software is under the freeware umbrella.
minus-squaresecret300@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoMakes sense. In my mind when I think freeware tho I think discord, Spotify, free to use apps that have subscriptions and are proprietary. So I don’t like that GIMP is labeled with those
minus-squareLka1988@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoYes, but the average person doesn’t give a shit about the technical definition. You know what is meant, don’t be pedantic about it.
minus-squareKilgore Trout@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI’d hope that Tom’s Hardware is written by someone more knowledgeable than “the average person”. Otherwise it’s as good as dead.
Freeware = Free software
Technically true.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
I’ve read the first part and it’s all “most often”, “may be”, so, technically, FOSS software is under the freeware umbrella.
Makes sense. In my mind when I think freeware tho I think discord, Spotify, free to use apps that have subscriptions and are proprietary. So I don’t like that GIMP is labeled with those
Yes, but the average person doesn’t give a shit about the technical definition. You know what is meant, don’t be pedantic about it.
I’d hope that Tom’s Hardware is written by someone more knowledgeable than “the average person”.
Otherwise it’s as good as dead.