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I like the initiative. Why tie it to the free software movement? > Software should be free This is unnecessary. Copyright allows us to decide how to distribut

I like the initiative. Why tie it to the free software movement? > Software should be free This is unnecessary. Copyright allows us to decide how to distribute software we create. By including "software should be free", it sounds like they want to abolish copyright as well.

charcircuit 5y ago
The Free Software Foundation is biased.
- unityByFreedom 5y ago
  > The Free Software Foundation is biased. Ok? I'm not sure what point you are making. I didn't mention FSF.
  - dwohnitmok 5y ago
    Parent is probably referring to the fact that this website was created by the FSF, hence they are motivated to tie ending patents to the free software movement.
    - unityByFreedom 5y ago
      Oh I didn't see that. Well this is dead in the water then, in my opinion. Using verbiage that sounds like abolishing copyright will never fly anywhere outside a very small subset of software folks.
bo1024 5y ago
Actually they like using copyright to enforce software freedom, but I see your point.
- unityByFreedom 5y ago
  Then it doesn't make sense to include that statement on the home page. That statement never held water for me. I do think we should look at what it would take to ditch software patents. Now that I see this page is from the FSF, it makes sense. I know RMS will never give up on forcibly making all software free.
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