Free Software is Against Tyranny, It's for Societal Justice (Lessening Abuse of Power)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-05-08 01:39:24 UTC
- Modified: 2023-05-08 01:39:24 UTC
Summary: The opponents of software freedom are trying to tell us that it should be called "Open Source" and it's all about having source code; don't listen to them, they're the people who get paid by Microsoft [1, 2, 3] to promote proprietary GitHub (a 'free' prison)
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