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It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Freeware - software you do not have to pay for (e.g. Google Chrome)

Open-source software - software whose code you can inspect

Free software - software you can use, modify and share

FOSS - software that satisfies the second and third condition (e.g. lemmy, linux, VLC)

While almost all free software is also open-source, there are a few exceptions like some early versions of Mozilla Firefox. There are quite a few open-source software that are not free software, such as Android.