I think we have to consider that the principles of the free software movement, revolutionary though they genuinely were, were also set in the same mindset that latterly saw its founder Richard Stallman spectacularly fall from grace. They are principles that deal in software development and licensing in strict isolation, outside of the social context of their use. They are code-centered, not human-centered.

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It’s worth considering whose freedom we value. Do we value the freedom of the people who use software, or do we also value the freedom of the people the software is used on? While the latter group doesn’t always exist, when they do, how we consider them says a lot about us and our priorities.

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    10 months ago

    free people from proprietary gardens, yet FOSS has actually been one of the biggest creators of such gardens

    Forgive the nitpick, but FOSS is not creating walled gardens, companies are. (After all, software has no willpower… yet)