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>>[...] restricts the freedom to restrict freedom [...] That's a great turn of phrase. I'll try to use it the next time somebody asks me to summarize the GPL,
by otoburb 10y ago
>>[...] restricts the freedom to restrict freedom [...]
That's a great turn of phrase. I'll try to use it the next time somebody asks me to summarize the GPL, which has similar restrictions built in as per Stallman's original intent.
- dredmorbius 10y agoSee Karl Popper's "intolerance of intolerance". Rawls and others have also opined.
- wruza 10y agoRMS always cared about software freedom, not human's.
- mcv 10y agoHe cares about the end user's freedom. Not about the intermediary developer's freedom to restrict the end user's freedom.