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Thunderbird Launches Open-Source Premium Webmail Service (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

'Open source', a phrase deliberately engineered with several different meanings, is very effective at scamming us out of libre software.

A service cannot have a software license. It is a service, not software. We are not bound by a software license when someone else runs their software on their device.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There is a nice writeup on this by the GNU people:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Did you really use the "insert link" option to put a link in your comment?

Just paste the link directly into the text body.

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