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[News] FLOSS and "Commercial" Are Not Opposites

"Commercial" is not the opposite of Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)

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| When I talk with with other people about Free-Libre / Open Source
| Software (FLOSS), I still hear a lot of people mistakenly use the
| term "commercial software" as if it had the opposite meaning of FLOSS
| (aka open source software, Free-Libre Software, or OSS/FS). That's in
| spite of (1) the rise in commercial development and support for FLOSS,
| (2) most FLOSS projects' goal to incorporate improvements, which are
| actually a form of financial gain, (3) official definitions of
| "commercial item" that include FLOSS, and (4) FLOSS licenses and
| projects that clearly approve of commercial support. Terms like
| "proprietary software" or "closed source" are plausible antonyms of
| FLOSS, but "commercial" is absurd as an antonym.
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