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jazzyjackson 21 hours ago

RMS may have coined free software as a term and legal construct via licensing but he wasn’t the first to give software away for free

akimbostrawman 14 hours ago | parent [-]

>but he wasn’t the first to give software away for free

They never claimed he was and it's irrelevant because free software has nothing to do with "giving software away for free"

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

jazzyjackson 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yea sounds like a marketing problem to try and take ownership of how a common word is used