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I don't know why but it pissed me off so much that they called gimp "freeware" (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

only in theory. in reality, only one person would ever buy it then re-release the source code for free-as-in-beer. unless you're talking about something other than GPL2/3.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

People buy copies of proprietary software and then share them for free.

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