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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/113828367432898806">Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 04:30:50 JST</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" title="pluralistic@mamot.fr"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/1478-48-20250110225240.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Cory Doctorow" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Cory Doctorow</a><div><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113828366620774992" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>It was reverse-engineering SMB and making SAMBA, which is now in every single device in your home and office, and it's gloriously free as in speech *and* free as in beer:</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects</a></p><p>In the years since, a thicket of laws we colloquially call "IP" has grown up around services and products, and people have literally forgotten that there is an alternative to wheedling people to endure the pain of leaving a proprietary system for a free one. </p><p>26/</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4374537#notice-8555392">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-15T04:30:50+09:00" title="Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 04:30:50 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113828367432898806" rel="external" title="Sent from mamot.fr via ActivityPub">mamot.fr</a></span></span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113828367432898806">permalink</a></footer></blockquote>

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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 04:30:50 JST Cory Doctorow
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It was reverse-engineering SMB and making SAMBA, which is now in every single device in your home and office, and it's gloriously free as in speech *and* free as in beer:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects
In the years since, a thicket of laws we colloquially call "IP" has grown up around services and products, and people have literally forgotten that there is an alternative to wheedling people to endure the pain of leaving a proprietary system for a free one.
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