We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
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We need more of Richard Stallman, not less écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698

Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s really a problem with the way copyright, or copyleft advocacy is done, written or proposed … there will be an endless debate about it forever.

    One of the things that should change is our collective culture of paying for things we value and are actually important in our society and civilization. Everyone should be made aware of the work that developers, admins, hobbyists and programmers do for free. We should normalize donations, contributions and subscriptions to these things and these people.

    If it became normal that thousands or millions of users everywhere contributed dollars or even cents for the work that is done for the benefit of everyone … there would be more than enough money to protect the copyright of software and even pay for the work these people do.