Tag: floss

  • Are companies people? For free/open-source licensing purposes? Should they be?

    Free and open-source software is great. For example, large companies gain the following freedom: “The freedom to distribute copies [to some other large corporation for free] so your large corporation can help your neighbor large corporation”. Governments have this freedom: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to other governments. By doing this […]

  • We Want Root

    When you buy an iPhone, do you actually get to own it? Apple is doing its darnedest to make changes impossibe that you might want to do but that they don’t approve of, even after you paid a lot of money for the device. Does not sound like ownership to me. It wasn’t always that […]