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Where you sit on this scale of secrecy is very much a matter of what you expect to get out of participating in the software 'business'. RMS' movement allows fo
by fit2rule 10y ago
Where you sit on this scale of secrecy is very much a matter of what you expect to get out of participating in the software 'business'.
RMS' movement allows for little wiggle room when it comes to 'free software', because it is a movement. Unless you're willing to join a movement, its perfectly okay to criticize it from the skirts - but the point is, RMS has set those skirts at a boundary of his choosing, according to an ideology.
That ideology has done a lot of good for the world. It is worth considering seriously, just what the world would be like today without a Free Software movement happening, as it did, over the last 40 years. 40 years of software development culture has existed with this ideology in its midst; what of the world, were it not so?
- cpkpad 10y agoThey're all ideologies, and some work better than others. We just don't recognize ours as such from the inside. RMS's ideology seems to work better than the mainstream one.