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   Jason Self (jxself@social.bobcall.me)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 15:55:44 JST Jason Self

   Free software is a philosophy of human rights and liberation, not control. It gives users freedom & empowerment, putting them in control of their own computing. Strong copyleft licenses like the AGPL work to defend this from being taken away. Read more: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html #SoftwareFreedom

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     ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 15:55:43 JST ≠

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     ...and imposes responsibility upon them.

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     @amerika Yes, like international human rights law. Software freedom isn't just a right, it's a responsibility. If you write software please respect the rights of users to share, copy, modify, and use the software as they wish: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html #softwarefreedom

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     @amerika Free software doesn't impose a responsibility for the maintainer to support modified versions, or even to support their own versions. They can do those things if desired but support isn't part of the Free Software Definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html So it's quite a jump to say it falls on the original person. Case in point: The GNU Project doesn't provide support for their software.

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     ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 15:56:03 JST ≠

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     I hope not. International human rights law is a disaster.

     More of what I was saying is that with freedom comes responsibility.

     Your software can be modified, and now the maintenance burden falls on you instead of having someone else paid to do that.

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