Diamond Edition is available to anyone who supports the project with a small donation. This version includes preinstalled applications for producing audio, video, and images, and professional tools to support your business, your imagination, and your creativity.

As far as I can tell, there is no difference between the two editions, other than that the Diamond flavor makes it easy to donate to the project.

After installing and texting iDealOS over the weekend, something came to me that's less about the OS and more about the ideal.

This is a challenging question to ask, especially given how open-source has functioned for as long as it's been around. Open-source is free and open, and I firmly stand behind that. But does that mean it has to be free?