• lemmyreaderOP
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    42 months ago

    Like someone else already wrote : GUIX is a GNU Project. If you look how very long it took for Debian to include non-free firmware with the installer (Since Debian Bookworm) one may start to appreciate the difference between free software and open source.

    • folkrav
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      12 months ago

      I’ll be that guy pointing out at semantics - “open-source”, in the widely used OSI definition of the term is actually equal to free (as in freedom). It’s why open-source advocates go so hard at saying “this is not open-source” when companies just dumps their source code somewhere and dubs themselves open-source for it.

      • Refurbished Refurbisher
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        32 months ago

        The difference between “open source” and “free software” isn’t a definitional one, but a philosophical one.

        • folkrav
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          12 months ago

          Fair enough. I know the FSF likes to make the distinction.