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[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Free and Open Source Software

It means that the source code is released and available and you can even build the code yourself. You can inspect it to make sure it's not doing anything malicious or stupid (but more likely you can hope other people that are smarter than you will do it).

The only advantages it has really for regular end users are it's free, and if it's popular other developers will make apps that use it.