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Open-source software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Software developers may want to publish their software with an open-source software license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand how it works. |
| | The Free Software Foundation (FSF), started in 1985, intended the word 'free' to mean "free as in free speech" and not "free as in free beer." Since a great deal of free software already was (and still is) free of charge, such free software became associated with zero cost, which seemed anti-commercial. |
| | There have been instances where software vendors have sloppily labeled their proprietary software as "open source" because it interfaces with popular open source software (such as Linux), despite it not being open source software itself; this confusing practice is discouraged. |
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