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FOSS and Community edition softwares
| VS Community Edition is not FLOSS, not even in the slightest. Indeed, even VS Code which technically has its code released is distributed as proprietary freeware. As a general rule, freeware distributed under an EULA, which isn't one of these licenses: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
.. is generally just as bad as proprietary paid software. Don't let them fool you.
| Just use linux and open source softwares, stop worrying, fucking faggot
| >>379753
Proprietary software companies just want to suck free community labour. They don't offer Foss, they only open their software in a way that it becomes more attractive to developers, so that they get used to APIs based on proprietary standards. I would never do anything for a "community" that is dumb enough to serve a proprietary money machine for free. It's like people who wear stuff with a big visible brand logo, thinking they're very smart but are nothing but free ads.
| >>379777 >>379791
Good points there, but what about for example "comunity editions" that actually has a "libre" license ,and that also has a "payed edition" that is proprietary? I think theses are the most confusing ones. I saw a few projects like that, where CE is apache 2 licensed, and PE is strong eula licensed...
| >>379797
In my opinion it entirely depends on the organisation. I certainly don't have an issue with companies dual licensing their software under a proprietary license with support, SLA and so on for businesses and releasing the software as FLOSS at the same time. But where it's not okay is when the Libre edition is clearly inferior, giving you incentive to switch to the proprietary software.
| >>379797
Also, please don't make the mistake to label paid software as exclusively proprietary software, it's not. Free/Libre software can be sold without any issues. RMS himself isn't against it. Proprietary software is simply software which denies you freedom in pretty much every way.
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| I recently found that a lot of software nowadays have proprietary version that costs money, and the "community edition" that says it's open source and free except it actually has a crappy license. I'm really confused about using theses. For example visual studio community edition, it's by microsoft but it's open source, it's free(0$), can't really find where's the problem here and should i be happy whith it. Your thoughts?