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⁂ L. Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town

Let's talk about the "Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software" a bit, particularly in relation to the principles laid out here: destructured.net/casa

The Four Freedoms, for anyone who doesn't know, are another, earlier quartet of principles that serve as a kind of definition of "free software" in the context of FOSS. They've been foundational to much of how we understand the purpose of open source since their formulation in the mid-1980s.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto@mas.to

@lrhodes thank you, this was a good read, I was briefly musing on the topic myself recently: mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/1174465

mas.to Gabriele Svelto (@gabrielesvelto@mas.to) A new time needs new terms, and I find both free software and open source terms that I don't get along with anymore. Free software is sadly tainted with the libertarian ethos that fueled so many toxic egos, and open source has always been an exquisitely corporate affair. We need new terms for software that is free to use, free to change and serves the user. Something that is intrinsecaly non-corpo

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