The "free" in free software is (deliberately) ambiguous, a bit of wordplay that sometimes misleads people into thinking it means "#FreeAsInBeer" when really it means "#FreeAsInSpeech" (in Romance languages, these distinctions are captured by translating "free" as "libre" rather than "gratis").

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@gluecon? Come to my talk on Stargate, Cassandra's API engine. Hands on, includes a chatgpt written rap, and uses a #freeasinbeer hosted Cassandra instance to play with. Also: Swag! Check it out early if you want: https://dtsx.io/explore-stargate

Despite a decade of energetic commons-enclosing, some of the staunchest bastions of openness and generativity continue to thrive, like #Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that isn't just #FreeAsInBeer, it's also #FreeAsInSpeech - free to mix and remix as you choose.

Here's a whole passel of delightful Wikipedia-generated search tools, the #SearchGizmos, a whole suite of special-purpose search tools that mine Wikipedia for informational goodies:

https://searchgizmos.com/

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The Greatest Internet Things Of All Time: the Internet Archive, aka The Wayback Machine, the history of over 807 billion web pages.
https://web.archive.org
#knowledge #freeasinbeer #freeasinspeech

The Greatest Internet Things Of All Time: The TOR Project.
https://www.torproject.org
#freeasinbeer #freeasinspeech

The Greatest Internet Things Of All Time: Wikipedia.
https://www.wikipedia.org
#knowledge #freeasinbeer #freeasinspeech

The Greatest Internet Things Of All Time, Number (Cont p93): Project Gutenberg.
https://gutenberg.org
#books #reading #freeasinbeer

Created a #patreon account to enable you paying me a (crate of) #beer 🍻 in case you feel like keeping me motivated 😋. https://www.patreon.com/Spaceflight607. Unfortunately you need an account on the platform even for a one-time transfer. Let me know in case there are better options.

#FreeAsInBeer #SpaceCommunity

... and this is barely a fraction of #AllTheThings (eg., Did you know the #TaxPrepIndustry lobbies to keep U.S. taxes complicated and prevents the #IRS from creating a system that is simple and free? #FreeAsInBeer)

https://youtu.be/pX_t7W_aRIA

#SomeMoreNews #Lobbying #ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings

@rollbritannia
I guess many people will be pushed toward other rules set, for example #pathfinder, #gurps or something intrinsically "more free" such as #fate .
Just for curiosity sake, what are the main #FreeAsInFreedomOfSpeech and/or #freeasinbeer #ttrpg ?

@jzitt very interesting article. what caught my attention too, was that the article is tagged with #FreeAsInBeer 🤌

it really got me going but then again I really wish they'd just open source it. but they're known for selling (like in case of Max/msp).

What makes our new 🤖 BFF so unprecedented isn’t really the language model or the interface - it’s that 10,000,000 people are getting to use it for free.

#ai #openai #freeasinbeer

RT @doctorow@twitter.com

In 1998, another name was proposed for software licensed on "free" terms: #OpenSource. Nominally, this term was intended to resolve the ambiguity between #FreeAsInBeer and #FreeAsInSpeech - that is, to make it clear that "free software" didn't mean "noncommercial software." 36/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1599770403714514945

In 1998, another name was proposed for software licensed on "free" terms: #OpenSource. Nominally, this term was intended to resolve the ambiguity between #FreeAsInBeer and #FreeAsInSpeech - that is, to make it clear that "free software" didn't mean "noncommercial software."

This was said to be necessary to resolve the fears of commercial firms that had been frightened away from free software due to a misunderstanding.

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