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No, Stallman is a copyright supporter. He just sees it as a tool to empower users. And from his perspective, it makes some sense. If everything were IP liberate
by zanny 10y ago
No, Stallman is a copyright supporter. He just sees it as a tool to empower users. And from his perspective, it makes some sense. If everything were IP liberated, there would be no compulsion to release source code, but my optimism makes me hope that if you cannot profit off software sales, you have no reason not to also disclose the source.
If you can only make money off people paying you to write the software, having the broadest audience becomes crucial, and in such a world (much in the same way most developer tools work outside the MS ecosystem) not being free software would mean nobody would fathom using your software.