That’s only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it
With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.
From the standpoint who doesn’t do much coding it’s probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can’t use one of your favourite programs anymore.
That’s only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it
With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.
From the standpoint who doesn’t do much coding it’s probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can’t use one of your favourite programs anymore.