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Most everything on the internet is free...so are you saying we should just stop using it?

• vageli 8y ago
  > Most everything on the internet is free...so are you saying we should just stop using it? Free in what sense? We need to stop constraining the notion of "free" to monetary value.
  • zelphirkalt 8y ago
    Yes indeed, thank you! Even here on HN so many people do not know what they are talking about when they say "free software".
• WilliamEdward 8y ago
  This is a shortsighted viewpoint of how value, money, and the concept of 'free' works. Someone had to put in effort to put up the websites you use for free. Someone is paying or motivating those developers to keep doing that so you don't have to. The problem is all free software comes at the cost of either being made by someone who is doing it out of kindness or someone who is pawning your data. You cannot know which one it is.
  • zelphirkalt 8y ago
    Yes shortsighted, but also uninformed. In an informed sense of the the word group "free software" there are ethical standards connected to it and those are about not "pawning data" as well.
• deleted 8y ago
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