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>In the world RMS wants, Apple would not have the right to develop Swift and make it proprietary. In the world RMS wants, people would shun proprietary softwar
by gillianseed 12y ago
>In the world RMS wants, Apple would not have the right to develop Swift and make it proprietary.
In the world RMS wants, people would shun proprietary software due to it not giving them the rights which are afforded to them through copyleft.
This is what he is advocating, that people should not accept proprietary software due to it not respecting their rights, not that proprietary software should be illegal.
- quadrangle 12y agoaside from obfuscated or secret source, proprietary software relies on legal restrictions. RMS would be perfectly fine removing the artificial legal restrictions that proprietary terms use if it didn't hurt the ability to protect software freedom for free software. Proprietary software terms should be illegal.