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Except that the FSF doesn't care whether technology is used to erode civil liberties, as long as the source code is available.
by myhf 13y ago
Except that the FSF doesn't care whether technology is used to erode civil liberties, as long as the source code is available.
- privong 13y agoNot quite. https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/surveillance https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/surveillance
- lucastx 13y agoMy point of view about this is that if releasing the source code and allowing modifications and redistribution was the norm, technology that erode civil liberties would be naturally selected out or replaced.
- ctb_mg 13y agoSorry, I have to speak up for Mr. Stallman here; that is not correct. Free software is Free as in Freedom with the explicit goal of protecting the users' rights and liberties. FSM is NOT simply an "open source movement". This is why rms gets up in arms when people describe his views with the phrase "open source".
- lukifer 13y agoI don't agree with Stallman's level of zealotry, but I understood his stance a lot better when I discovered that one of the core motivators for a full open-source stack is the ability to audit whether you are being spied on. I don't believe propietary software is evil, but neither can I argue with that logic.