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Rich Felker

@whalecoiner The difference is that software is part of power dynamics; pastries aren't. We make FOSS *despite* bad folks also being able to use it, because the alternative is that corporations control everything that mediates everyone's relationships to the modern world. Without granting that freedom, our peers can't trust that we're not going to just rug pull and join the corporations, and thus what we made would be largely useless.

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LisPi
@dalias @whalecoiner And with software, unlike with hardware, it is a lot harder to meaningfully enforce monopolies like the patent system was designed to create.

In truth, we should also do our utmost to destroy that system of oppressive monopolism as well.
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