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Comment by unclenoriega

1 year ago

Who are the slaves in this analogy?

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tristan957  1 year ago

I would say that the users are the slaves. Without GPL software, we could end up in situations where hardware vendors stop shipping software updates, so we are slaves to capitalism by having to buy things we shouldn't need to buy.

This goes hand in hand with right to repair in my opinion.

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