Frequent Question: Does Elementary Os Cost Money?
Contents Yep. You’re Pretty Much Cheating the System When You Choose to Download Elementary Os for Free, an Os That’s Described as “A Free Replacement for...
Yep. You’re pretty much cheating the system when you choose to download elementary OS for free, an OS that’s described as “a free replacement for Windows on the PC and OS X on the Mac.” The same web page notes that “elementary OS is completely free” and that “there are no costly fees” to worry about.
Do you need to pay for elementary OS?
There is no special version of elementary OS only for paying users (and there will never be one). The payment is a pay-what-you-want thing which allows you to pay $0. Your payment is entirely voluntary to support the development of elementary OS.
Is elementary OS open source?
The elementary OS platform is itself entirely open source, and it’s built upon a strong foundation of Free & Open Source software.
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