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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ distinctive relationship with her own work. Without some metaphysics
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or theological conceptions about cultural production, this special
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relation is difficult to prove---but that is another story.
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![Locke and Hegel drinking tea while discussing about several topics on Nothingland… Except +++IP+++, that is a contemporary topic far different to what they talked about.](../../../img/p006_i001.png)
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![Locke and Hegel drinking tea while discussing several topics on Nothingland… Except +++IP+++, that is a contemporary topic far different to what they talked about.](../../../img/p006_i001.png)
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From copyfight, copyleft and copyfarleft movements, a lot of people
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have argued that this argument hides the fact that most authors
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@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ that doesn't rely on the actual producers, cultural phenomena or world issues…
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And it also shows that there are [librarians](https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds-why-we-released-the-national-emergency-library)
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and [researchers](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-03/covid-19-open-science)
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fighting in favor of public interests; +++AKA+++, how important
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are libraries and open access today and how they can't be replaced
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libraries and open access are today and how they can't be replaced
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by (online) bookstores or subscription-based research.
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I find it very pretentious if [some authors](https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/internet-archives-uncontrolled-digital-lending)
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I would find it very pretentious if [some authors](https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/internet-archives-uncontrolled-digital-lending)
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and [some publishers](https://publishers.org/news/comment-from-aap-president-and-ceo-maria-pallante-on-the-internet-archives-national-emergency-library)
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didn't agree with this _temporal_ openness of their work. But let's not miss the
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point: this global pandemic has shown how easily it is for publishers
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@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ case the authors, but more generally and secularly the producers.
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The copyleft holders---a kind of cool copyright holder that
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hacked copyright laws---also defends their interest in a similar
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way, but instead of authors, they talk about users and instead
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of profits they supposedly defend freedom.
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of profits, they supposedly defend freedom.
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There is a huge difference between each of them, but I just want
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to denote how they talk about people in order to defend their
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interests. I wouldn't put them in the same sack if it wasn't
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because of two issues.
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because of these? two issues.
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Some copyleft holders were so annoying in defending Stallman.
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_Dudes_, at least from here we don't reduce the free software movement
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@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ important he is or was. Criticizing his actions wasn't synonymous with
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throwing away what this movement has done---what we have done!---,
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as a lot of you tried to mitigate the issue: “Oh, but he is not
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the movement, we shouldn't have made a big issue about that.” His
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and your attitude is the fucking issue. He and you have made it
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and your attitude is the fucking issue. Together you have made it
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very clear how narrow both views are. Stallman fucked it up
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and was behaving very immaturely by thinking the movement is
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or was thanks to him---we also have our own stories about his
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Instead, they have tried to give formal definitions of
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software freedom. Don't get me wrong, definitions are a good
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way to plan and understand a phenomenon. But besides its formality
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way to plan and understand a phenomenon. But besides its formality,
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it is problematic to bind others to your own definitions,
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mainly when you say the movement is about and for them.
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one way or the other, of course the notion of freedom is gonna
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vary.
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With freedom's different meanings we could try to reduce its diversity ? > The diversity of freedom definitions.
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With freedom's different meanings we could try to reduce its diversity
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so it could be embedded in any context or we could try something else.
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I dunno, maybe we could make software freedom an interoperable
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concept that fits each of our worlds or we could just stop trying
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that are proud to support the copyleft movement tend to be blind
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about this. I am talking from my experiences, my battles and
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my struggles when I decided to use copyfarleft licenses in most
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parts of my work. Instead of having support from representatives
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of this institutions, I first received warnings: “That freedom
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parts of my work. Instead of receiving support from institutional
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representatives, I first received warnings: “That freedom
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you are talking about isn't freedom.” Afterwards, when I sought
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infrastructure support, I got refusals: “You are invited to use
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our code in your server, but we can't provide you hosting because
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your licenses aren't free.” Dawgs, if I could, I wouldn't look
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for your help in the first place, duh.
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Thanks to a lot of Latin Americans hackers and pirates, I am little
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Thanks to a lot of Latin American hackers and pirates, I am little
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by little building my and our own infrastructure. But I know
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this help is actually a privilege: for many years I couldn't
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execute many projects or ideas only because I didn't have
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(There is a pedagogical deficiency in the free software movement
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that makes people think that writing documentation and praising
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self-taught learning is enough. From my point of view it is more
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self-taught learning is enough. From my point of view, it is more
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about the production of a self-image in how a hacker or a pirate
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_should be_. Plus, it's fucking scary when you realize how ? > It is scary to see that copyleft movement is manly, hierarchical and so on.
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manly, hierarchical and meritocratic this movement tends to be.)
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_should be_. Plus, it's fucking scary when you realize how
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manly, hierarchical and meritocratic this movement tends to be.
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According to copyleft folks, my notion of software freedom isn't
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free because copyfarleft licenses prevents _people_ to use software. ? > Prevents, yep!
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free because copyfarleft licenses prevents _people_ from using software.
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This is a very common criticism of any copyfarleft license. And
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it is also a very paradoxical one.
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Between the free software movement and open source initiative there
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has been a disagreement about the ought to inherit the same type ? > Free software implies to use the same license in your software that the free software you are using for its development.
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of license, like the General Public License. For the free software
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movement this clause ensures that software will always be free.
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According to the open source initiative this clause is actually
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Between the free software movement and open source initiative, there
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has been a disagreement about who ought to inherit the same type of
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license, like the General Public License. For the free software
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movement, this clause ensures that software will always be free.
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According to the open source initiative, this clause is actually
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a counter-freedom because it doesn't allow people to decide which
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license to use and it also isn't very attractive for enterprise
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entrepreneurship. Let's not forget that both sides agree that
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the market is are essential for technology development.
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Free software supporters tend to vanish the discussion by declaring
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that open source defenders don't understand the social implication
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of this hereditary clause or that they have different interests
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and ways to change technology development. So it's kind of paradoxical
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that these folks see the anti-capitalist clause of copyfarleft
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licenses as a counter-freedom. Or they don't understand its implications
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or they don't perceive that copyfarleft doesn't talk about technology
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or perceive that copyfarleft doesn't talk about technology
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development in its insolation, but in its relationship with politics,
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society and economy.
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together, instead of paying attention to what could divide us.
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Finally, I don't think these criticisms are wrong, but incomplete:
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the definition of software freedom has inherited the philosophical problem
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of how we can define and what the definition
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of how we define and what the definition
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of freedom implies.
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That doesn't mean I don't care about this discussion. Actually,
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me out with paywalls for technology and knowledge access, copyleft has
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kept me away with “licensewalls” with the same effects. So let's take a moment
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to see how free the freedom is that the copyleft institutions
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are preaching
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are preaching.
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According to _Open Source Software & The Department of Defense_
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(+++DoD+++), The +++U.S. DoD+++ is one of the biggest consumers
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property or capitalize knowledge. The same ones which have been
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trying to explain that the economic models they try to “teach”
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us don't work or we doubt them because of their side effects.
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Crowdfunding isn't easy because our cultural production here
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Crowdfunding isn't easy here because our cultural production
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is heavily dependent on government aids and policies, instead
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of the private or public sectors. And donations aren't a good idea
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because of the hidden interests they could have and the economic
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Those copyleft institutions that care so much about “user
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freedoms” actually haven't been explicit about how +++FOSS+++
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is helping shape a world where a lot of us don't fit in. It
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had to be right-wing think tanks, the ones that declares the relevance
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had to be right-wing think tanks, the ones that declare the relevance
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of +++FOSS+++ for warfare, intelligence, security and authoritarian regimes,
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while these institutions have been making many efforts in justifying
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its way of understanding cultural production as a commodification
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of its political capacity. They have shown that in their pursuit of
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government and corporate adoption of +++FOSS+++, they talk ? > They talk about “software user freedoms” but they actually refer to “freedom of use software”, no matter the objective.
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about users whereas their policies are designed to defend _use_.
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of its political capacity.
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They have shown that in their pursuit of
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government and corporate adoption of +++FOSS+++, they talk about “software user freedoms”
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but actually refer to “freedom of use software”, no matter the objective.
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..........about users whereas their policies are designed to defend _use_.
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They aren't defending “software user freedom” but “freedom of use software”,
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no matter who is the user and for what it is been used, if it
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no matter who the user is or what it has been used for, if it
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favors their interests.
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THIS PARAGRAPH NEEDS WORK
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There is some sort of cognitive dissonance that influences many copyleft
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supporters to treat others harshly, those who just want some kind ? > They treat other users like shit if they don't use of fit in their conception of freedom.
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of aid over the argument about which license or product is free
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or not. But in the meantime, they don't defy and some of them
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There is a sort of cognitive dissonance that influences many copyleft
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supporters to treat others harshly, those who just want some aid
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in the argument over which license or product is free
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or not. But in the meantime, they don't defy, and some of them
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even embrace the adoption of +++FOSS+++ for any kind of corporation,
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it doesn't matter if it exploits its employees, surveils its users,
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helps to undermine democratic institutions or is part of a killing
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The difference isn't a minor thing. A _use case_ neutralizes and
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reifies the subject of the action. In its dilution the interest
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of the subject becomes irrelevant. The four freedoms doesn't
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of the subject becomes irrelevant. The four freedoms don't
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ban the use of a program for selfish, slayer or authoritarian
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uses. Neither does it encourage them. By the romantic idea of
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uses. Neither do they encourage them. By the romantic idea of
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a common good, it is easy to think that the freedoms of run,
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study, redistribute and improve a program are synonymous with a
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mechanism that improves welfare and democracy. But because these
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four freedoms don't relate to any user interest and instead
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talk about the interest of using software and the adoption
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of an “open” cultural production, it hides the fact that sometimes
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the freedom of use goes against and uses subjects.
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of an “open” cultural production, it hides the fact that
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the freedom of use sometimes goes against and uses subjects.
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So the argument that copyfarleft denies people the use of software
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only makes sense between two confusions. First, the personification ? > They say they defend people freedom, but institutions aren't people.
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of institutions---like ? > I really fucked it up here, right? I rewrote this shit.
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the ones that feed authoritarian regimes, perpetuate labor exploitation
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or surveil its users---which sometimes their policies restrict freedom
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or access _to people_. Second, the assumption that freedoms over software
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So the argument that copyfarleft denies people the use of software
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only makes sense between two misconceptions. First, the personification
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of institutions---like the ones that feed authoritarian regimes, perpetuate labor exploitation
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or surveil its users---with their policies sometimes restricting freedom
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or access _to people_. Second, the assumption that freedoms over software
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use cases is equal to the freedom of its users.
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Actually, if your “open” economic model requires software use
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discussions about cultural production. I find it very hard to defend
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my support of freedom if my work enables some uses that could
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go against others' freedoms. This is of course the freedom
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dilemma about the [paradox of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). But my main conflict is when
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copyleft supporters boast about their defense of users freedoms
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dilemma about the [paradox of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance).
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But my main conflict is when copyleft supporters boast about their defense of users freedoms
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while they micromanage others' software freedom definitions
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and, in the meantime, they turn their backs to the gray, dark
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or red areas of what is implicit in the freedom they safeguard.
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