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"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.



In this case, I think yelling louder is useful. We need to band together to eliminate this false and misleading appellation.

We have had a term to describe this kind of software for decades: "freeware." That's what this and all other "free to download and use" offerings are; they are not open source under any commonly-understood meaning prior to last year.




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