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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: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @09:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @09:04PM (#614442)

    Without having to have any understanding of how it works behind the scenes. Basically they want the Wizard of Oz, without having to poke their head behind the curtains to see how he does his job.

    The majority of people are lazy, but the majority of people have enough money to override the will of the intelligent, but not amoral.

    As a result the intelligent but amoral can enforce THEIR whims on everyone because they are the true shepards of the flock.

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