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freedomware

noun

Etymology

From freedom + -ware.

  1. inherited from *frijadōm✻ — “freedom”
  2. inherited from frēodōm — “freedom, state of free-will, charter, emancipation, deliverance”
  3. inherited from fredom
  4. formed as freedomware — “freedom + -ware”

Definitions

  1. 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”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for freedomware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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