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Let me pay for Firefox

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803 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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bramgn ◴[13 Jul 25 10:48 UTC] No.44549302[source]▶
Perhaps we should stop calling open-source software "free" due to the stigma that comes with it. It's no longer a selling point, nor should it have been.
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1. arp242 ◴[13 Jul 25 12:26 UTC] No.44549900[source]▶
There are about 5.5 billion people on the internet. Firefox's "small" market share of ~5% is still about 250 million users.

I'm reasonably sure that a small fraction of those 250 million people are even aware of the concept of "Free Software" or "Open Source", or how it relates to Firefox.