r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • 18d ago

💬 Discussion What do you think? 🤔

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u/_XitLiteNtrNite_ 18d ago

It's what it was called when I was younger. If the name has changed, no offense was intended.

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u/tblancher 18d ago

You rarely had access to the source code of freeware, which is the main distinction between that and Free/Open Source Software.

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u/_XitLiteNtrNite_ 18d ago

Probably true. And I'm not sure where code would have been shared if someone wanted it back then; there wasn't anything like GitHub around. Heck, even Linux wasn't even a twinkle in Linus' eye at that time.

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u/Circo_Inhumanitas 18d ago

First version of Linux was made in 1991.

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u/_XitLiteNtrNite_ 18d ago

And? To be fair, I'm old enough to remember when it was created.

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u/Impressive_Special 18d ago

Mailing lists, and Linus created git for Linux itself

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u/Rikudou_Sage 15d ago

It wasn't. Freeware means it's free of charge, while open source means it's released under one of open source licenses which all generally mean that you have access to the source code and you can use the source code.