Aida on Nostr: Everything, "There's no such thing as a free lunch" means exactly what it ...

Everything, "There's no such thing as a free lunch" means exactly what it says—nothing is free, at most it can be included with other service, but there is a cost. The lunch is physical and didn't materialized from thin air.

But free software can be used, replicated, reused, modified, sold, etc. because the original author allowed it. It has nothing to do with the cost and everything with the concept of freedom of ideas.

So it is not free as in lunch or beer but free as in speech or ideas.