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Joseph Graham has written a very short blog post about software freedom and the direction we might take to achieve it.
The free software movement, founded in the 80s by Richard Stallman and supported by the Free Software Foundations 1, 2, 3, 4, preaches that we need software that gives us access to the code and the copyright permissions to study, modify and redistribute. While I feel this is entirely true, I think it's not the best way to explain Free Software to people.
I think the problem we have is better explained more like this:
"Computer technology is complicated and new. Education about computers is extremely poor among all age groups. Technology companies have taken advantage of this lack of education to brainwash people into accepting absurd abuses of their rights."
Source : The Free Software movement is Barking up the wrong tree
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @10:45PM
I was talking to the medical tech who runs the periodic check on my pacemaker and the subject of what FOSS is came up.
I gave him the example of the guy who bought a "bargain" monitor then found that his video card didn't support that resolution out of the box.
With EULAware, he would have been SOL and would have needed to make another trip to return the "non-working" gear.
With FOSS, he was able to tweak the code and his bargain remained a bargain.
Why Open Source Is Important (Video Is Tweakable Beyond What Was Shipped) [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [goodbyemicrosoft.net]
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