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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 26 2017, @07:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the interesting-viewpoints dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday December 27 2017, @06:43PM (1 child)

    by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday December 27 2017, @06:43PM (#614829) Journal

    In some cases, the supplier provided a binary-only blob and has subsequently gone out of business and the receivers lost the code.

    The procedure for this:

    1. Buy rights to what the receivers do have
    2. Disassemble
    3. Publish assembly code under free software license
    4. Add unit tests
    5. Refactor

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:09AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:09AM (#618954)

    I suspect they thought of that.