• 3 Posts
  • 81 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle
















  • I live in mixed world where companies are making proprietary software and paywalling everything. Yet, there’s independent open source programs where I can get a copy, share, and expand as I want without worring about legal issues.

    Free as in beer means I got a beer for free (gratis, “No Price”), whereas speech is I can say what I want (without being silenced).*

    In this context, Okular is a free (As in price) and free (As in libre software). I can copy, share, modify, and share modification as I please. There is no subscription, paywall, or proprietary licsense that prohibits this.

    • = This may be inaccurate, wrong, misleading, and varying amoung countries and states.