top | item 19525083 (no title) Myrth | 7 years ago what privacy is for, if not freedom discuss order hn newest salutonmundo|7 years ago "Freedom" in terms of software doesn't mean privacy, but freedom to run, modify, and redistribute software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html _verandaguy|7 years ago Agreed here, the two should never be conflated.You could make a totally open-source, libre-licensed DRM enforcement framework -- any user willing to dig through it could probably modify and defuse it, but out of the box, it would be an example of free software which aims to defeat freedom.
salutonmundo|7 years ago "Freedom" in terms of software doesn't mean privacy, but freedom to run, modify, and redistribute software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html _verandaguy|7 years ago Agreed here, the two should never be conflated.You could make a totally open-source, libre-licensed DRM enforcement framework -- any user willing to dig through it could probably modify and defuse it, but out of the box, it would be an example of free software which aims to defeat freedom.
_verandaguy|7 years ago Agreed here, the two should never be conflated.You could make a totally open-source, libre-licensed DRM enforcement framework -- any user willing to dig through it could probably modify and defuse it, but out of the box, it would be an example of free software which aims to defeat freedom.
salutonmundo|7 years ago
_verandaguy|7 years ago
You could make a totally open-source, libre-licensed DRM enforcement framework -- any user willing to dig through it could probably modify and defuse it, but out of the box, it would be an example of free software which aims to defeat freedom.