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Open source? From [1] "[with the GPL the FSF is] reshaping how programs are made in order to give everyone the right to understand, repair, improve, and redist
by pmontra 5y ago
Open source?
From [1] "[with the GPL the FSF is] reshaping how programs are made in order to give everyone the right to understand, repair, improve, and redistribute the best-quality software on earth"
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html
- dotancohen 5y agoOpen source is an alternative to legislated proprietary software. There is no feasible path towards legislating that all software companies must provide the source code for their products today. Though that may have been an alternative future had our timeline forked somewhere in the early 1970s.