> [!tldr] Zero cost & Zero restrictions. **Dylan Beattie** is phenomenal technical speaker. Highly recommend the source. His metaphor for this was great. Here's a rough transcript from memory. > Free is great. We love free things. What does it mean, though? Free means 2 things. There's "free" as in "doesn't cost", and there's "free" as in "freedom of speech." > > Who wants a free beer? There. I've given you a free beer. You have one and it didn't cost you anything. So what. Now you can drink it, or you can throw it away. You can't sell it, there are laws against that. You can't store it, beer goes bad. You can't even drink it if you're not old enough. You can do the exact thing the beer was designed to let you do, if you are able to do that. **You have a free beer, but you have no freedom with that beer**. He's advocating for [[Open Source|FOSS]] software. It's a very philosophical argument, and he's very good at delivering it. Instagram is free, but you can't do anything other than what they want you to do with it. [[Permanent Newbies|You can't even keep it the same]]. **** # More ## Source - https://youtu.be/vzYqxo13I1U?si=zH1DiVb6qwOPw62J