Free Software
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Free Software is a legal means to protect source code from being commercially exploited by proprietary business models. Free Software is closely related (and sometimes even percepted as identical) to Open Source.
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Free Software is not anti-commercial! There are many companies and individuals who make a living producing, maintaining and enhancing Free Software or offering services around it. In the geospatial realm it has grown into a healthy Business ecology.