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freedomware en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From freedom + -ware.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Free software (with source code available), distinguished from freeware.
    • […] And last of the “open software”, a rarer implementation is sourceware. A variation of freedomware, sourceware offers “open source” code with “closed (proprietary) standards”. 2005, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators, page 48:

Relateds

libre · free as in freedom · free as in speech · copyleft · free as in beer