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Tell that to a Free Software advocate and you might get interesting results :) To be less obtuse: this is exactly what people who say GNU/Linux and Free Softwa
by meruru 8y ago
Tell that to a Free Software advocate and you might get interesting results :)
To be less obtuse: this is exactly what people who say GNU/Linux and Free Software rather than Open Source have been concerned about since the beginning.
- thejohnconway 8y agoYes, indeed. I think that Richard Stallman and similar have a more balanced message in this respect. At some point the popular focus seemed to shift the notion that open source software needed to “win” in terms of market share, regardless of whether that was helping in the cause of computing freedom.
- quadrangle 8y agoThat argument was not dominant (though it existed) within the world of people who cared. It was primarily pushed by people who felt that ethics were in the way of business goals. For point of reference, Linus Torvalds only half cares about ethics. He likes all the value of collaboration from a developer perspective and doesn't care so much about whether software treats people well and gives end users any freedom.