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by TremendousJudge 1666 days ago
Free as in beer, maybe. Not free as in speech. I cannot fork the language and use it however I please. Maybe Stephen Wolfram has the best intentions, but he won't live forever. What then? What are the guarantees that Oracle won't buy it and screw over the users?
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> Free as in beer, maybe. Not free as in speech.

That is true, but the choice of words is correct: Open Source software is not necessarily Free Software.