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Open Source vs. Free Software: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?

So you’ve downloaded Firefox and replaced Microsoft Office with LibreOffice? You love these apps so much that you will no longer throw money at Microsoft or Apple and have decided to go 100 percent Linux. But you’ve since discovered that free software doesn’t have quite the same meaning here and you may be wondering why we don’t just call all of this stuff open source for the sake clarity.

 

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