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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Back when "FOSS" was "Free as in Beer" and fuck that Richard Stallman with his "free as in speech" bullshit

FOSS has always been about "free as in speech", and Stallman has said that it's more ethical to illegally download closed-source software than to pay for it.

FOSS vs. proprietary is tangential to the discussion over filesharing, anyway, because it addresses different issues. FOSS isn't good because it's zero-cost, it's good because it respects user freedoms.