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gapo | 6 years ago

> And the GNU has fully bought into communist principles, trying to enforce limitations of freedom on individuals in the name of ultimate greater freedom for all.

Just read this twice.

GNU has some issues. But it is definitely not this.

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sdegutis|6 years ago

That's exactly what the GPL is: limiting the developer's freedom for the sake of the expanding user's freedom. This is completely unethical.

tenebrisalietum|6 years ago

> limiting the developer's freedom for the sake of the expanding user's freedom.

This is like saying the outlaw of murder encroaches on your freedom to end life. The elimination of freedom to hide code that's executing on CPUs I own from myself is not a bad or unethical thing.

saagarjha|6 years ago

> That's exactly what the GPL is: limiting the developer's freedom for the sake of the expanding user's freedom.

Sounds spot-on.

> This is completely unethical.

This is an opinion, of course.