r/freesoftware↗
Free Software - Libre software and formats
"Free software" means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, "free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer".
53k subscribers99 posts / mo in Sep 202685 authors / mosince 2008
r/freesoftware has 53k members (+56% over the last 12 months). It gets about 99 posts a month from 85 people. Top topics: Open Source Projects, Open Office Suites and OpenSourceSoftware.
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- Open Source Projects1.5%
- Open Office Suites1.3%
- OpenSourceSoftware1.1%
- KDE Applications & Frameworks0.7%
- Linux Users0.6%
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