GPL doesn't make the program libre
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Troler
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I don't consider
freedom binary, for me some things are inherently more free than others. Here I define freedom as the capacity to do a task unhindered. With such definition, it comes to be clear, what I mean by freedom not being binary and existing on an
axis. For instance, repairing a standard PC is easier than the newest model of iPhone. This ease of repairability exists on a gradient, with the PC and iPhone being on different sides. The same applies to the actual binary, software world as well. It is easier to modify a program written in
Python than the same one written in C. In Python there is no need to keep recompiling and seeing the changes, all alterations can be done on the fly.
#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #gnu #libre #chrome #firefox #emacs #philosophy #essay #enshittification
Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )
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Blender Dumbass
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An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of
freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all
4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by
@Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.
#freedom #userfreedom #software #freesoftware #programming #opensource