I think I'm starting to forget, but could someone maybe tell me what the F in FOSS stands for?

wmf an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"We encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. ... So if you are redistributing copies of free software, you might as well charge a substantial fee and make some money. Redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it. ... Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it!" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

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mrob an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

"Free as in speech, not free as in beer."

I'm not reading an AI slop article, but there's nothing in either the Free Software Definition or the Open Source Definition restricting the selling of software. It does prevent you from restricting people from sharing that software once they've bought it, but you could always use a threshold pledge system to ensure you get enough money before releasing anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system

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cocodill an hour ago | parent [-]

> "Free as in speech, not free as in beer."

As I understand it, if you have the first, the second follows from it. So it's effectively the same.

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mrob an hour ago | parent [-]

Not the same at all. Free as in beer means you get nothing. Free as in speech allows you to get as much money as you can using a threshold pledge system. This isn't just theoretical: the famous 3D modelling software Blender was released this way, becoming Free Software only after a €100,000 payment.

	▲	cocodill 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry, I phrased it badly. I meant that in practice free-as-in-speech implies free-as-in-beer for copies: once anyone can redistribute the code.