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		bnr on June 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data s... It's open source, allright. Free Software is the term you are looking for.

throwaway2048 on June 17, 2013 [–]

Free to distribute is one of the fundamental defining things about open source [1]. Lets not water it down to the point of meaninglessness like words like `open' currently are.

[1]http://opensource.org/osd

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