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Gustephan t1_iz0tl0i wrote

What an L take. Comparing open source software to communism is openly admitting that you don't understand either of those concepts

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suflaj t1_iz0vqid wrote

Except I am not comparing anything to communism, but summarizing Stallman's manifesto as an appeal to communism, which it is.

I asked why someone would consider it necessary for such software to be free because I thought the argument would be about some functionality that already exists as free software or something that was taken from free software.

Yet OP just copy pasted an argument that is incompatible outside of an utopic setting, from a person that no longer has a place in modern society due to his wrongdoings.

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Cizox t1_iz11jvz wrote

Communism is when free stuff

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suflaj t1_iz12fzk wrote

Not at all, do not strawman. It is Stallman himself who notes that the free in software refers to freedom, not cost in the first place.

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