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Every developer is also an user. And "user" freedom is more important because we use tenths of millions of SLOC and do development work on a small fraction.
by goodpoint 6y ago
Every developer is also an user.
And "user" freedom is more important because we use tenths of millions of SLOC and do development work on a small fraction.
- tremon 6y agoThe copyright holder is never a user in a discussion about distribution rights, though.
- goodpoint 6y ago...in a very narrow sense where one person or organization owns all the copyright on a codebase. This can be true for a small program on a microcontroller, but 99.9% of FOSS is deployed as part of a big ecosystem. For each line of code I deploy on production there's 1000 lines of kernel, libraries, daemons, firmware. As developers, we are 0.1% developers and 99.9% users.