Freeing software

A response to Open Source Needs a Reckoning and a sequel to Software vs Capital.

John Ohno

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The noble goal of the free software movement is to change the relationship between people & software and to change the relationships between people mediated by software — specifically, to make software work for people by removing legal barriers based on intellectual property law that arbitrarily separate user from developer, so that users can change software to suit their own needs.

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John Ohno

Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net