ramonita,
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@tante also "free software" as an ideology suffers from a severe lack of class consciousness.

"if the user doesn't control the software, the software becomes an unjust means of control"—this is absolutely correct. but that's just because software is one instance of means of production. in general, it is unethical that means of production are controlled by a small class of owners. proprietary lands, proprietary buildings, proprietary factories, proprietary art, proprietary medicine and housing and natural resources—are all bad for the same reason that proprietary software is, only even more so, because much more far-reaching.

free software advocates often show a glaring lack of social perspective. you are not able to software anything at all if there weren't people making the microchips, the buildings you live in, the clothes you wear the food you eat; what about their tools and IP being all proprietary and used for unjust control? and how does that relate to "freedom 0" empowering said owners to coop the labour of free software hobbyists to tighten up social control even more?

see also:
https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/

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