Wolf480pl
Using Free Software doesn't automatically give people freedom.
The freedom is in the user's ability to modify the software when it does something user doesn't like, and make it do what user wants it to do.
As long as there's someone in the world for whom modifying the software they use is not an option, be it because of license, excessive complexity, lack of time, lack of patience, or because the person is afraid or overwhelmed by the concept of modifying something - that person is not free.
Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉
Free/Libre software give us a *collective potentiality* of freedom.
1/ if we don't take this potentially ourselves, somebody else can and we benefit from it. 2/ it is only a *potentiality* which means that someone somewhere has to invest energy/resources. It is therefore a collective effort, and a collective ressonsibility...
It isn't magical "freedom for all, now." it is still much better than "everyone in prison". A collective answer to a complex problem one cannot solve alone?
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