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Gabriel Arazas 732ef34ca8 Update notebook as of 2021-10-09 
Welp, I rarely take notes nowadays due to more specialized work and
stuff. Though, I should have more incentives for writing. In other
words, I'm just lazy. ;p

More free-thinking morning sessions should be done soon.
2021-10-09 18:14:46 +08:00

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Free software

Per roam:Free Software Foundation:

Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software.

  • a software that is primarily concerned with the liberty of the user regards to the software; thus, a dedicated user can influence the project working in the same realm as the team
  • one of the major components for roam:Free culture movement
  • "free as in free speech, not as in beer" is a popular phrase to describe the idea; thus, also applying that free software doesn't have to be free in price but it should still support the idea of openness with software

  • despite the moniker, several companies have been making profits from free software

    • roam:Red Hat is one of the biggest for-profit companies from selling support for Linux-based ecosystems
    • Sony made the operating systems for PS3, PS4, and PS5 from roam:FreeBSD
    • roam:Microsoft has been making free software (e.g., roam:Visual Studio Code, roam:TypeScript)
  • practically, a lot of the free software applications are created and maintained by volunteers in their spare time
  • furthermore, a lot of them are user-centric (e.g., roam:GNUnet, Guix package manager) usually catering to power users and tinkerers with options for advanced configurations
  • due to their open nature, it often represents how Openness makes diversity with the options to create forks of the software

  • most of them are also interested in compatibility as opposed to creating ecosystem from scratch; it is likely motivated from just pragmatism

    • roam:Inkscape offers importing from formats from its competitors such a Adobe Illustrator AI format
    • roam:LibreOffice can open several versions of Microsoft Word documents 1 and AppleWorks documents
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To be fair, DOC format is an open standard at this point.