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Free software has nothing to do with making services cheaper.
by alganet 1y ago
Free software has nothing to do with making services cheaper.
- bdcravens 1y agoNor is it about any obligation to contribute back.
- alganet 1y agoI never said it was.
- tsimionescu 1y agoIt absolutely does. Even Stallman talks explicitly about this - it's one of the reasons why the freedom to do anything, including commercially, with the code is so important.
- alganet 1y agoNo, it doesn't. Freedom to commercialize does not mean the movement is designed to make things cheaper.
- tsimionescu 1y agoIt's not designed to do that, no. But it is one of the goals, or at least one of the bonuses they expect to come of this. A big part of the freedom Stallman wants for everyone is the freedom to pay anyone who has the skills to work on your software, rather than the original creator having a monopoly on that and being able to charge monopoly prices to you.
- alganet 1y agoThat's a stretch. It's like saying the right to repair movement has a bonus of making cheaper phones because it introduces a point in which manufacturers can compete. It's a long set of stretches, actually. People are just using the idea to either side with Wordpress or not, without understanding what it is. It leads to the misinterpretation of what free software is about (which I don't need to explain, since no one is actually interested in it here).