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Free software can benefit everyone, without artificial scarcity induced by sharing restrictions or artificial limitations on use and modification. It gives maximal communal benefit instead of focusing on private benefit. That's the sort of thing communists like, I think.

There are also libertarian arguments for free software. I don't remember them right now, but Eric Raymond probably has essays about it on his website or something. Do keep in mind that removing intellectual property law is not enough to make all software free software - you need access to the source code for that.

It's not in principle impossible for communism and libertarianism to both approve of the same thing for different reasons.

Stallman doesn't like communism and objects to people calling free software communist.

again, free software is libertarian, it's the proprietary shit thats communism, I don't know where propriecucks even got that argument

>spying, home phoning

check'd

>do something the party (the company) doesn't want you to do and you can end up in jail (i.e. reverse engineering wangblows)

checky

>propaganda about how your shithole is the best thanks to the party

check (winfows wallpapers, booting animations, etc.)

and many others tbh

There is no correlation between free software as described by the FSF and communism, despite what some people believe. While it's no secret that Stallman himself has clearly leftist political views in general, that doesn't mean the concept of free software is "leftist" as well.

However, at least from what I've seen, "communists" aren't the ones trying to "appropriate" the term by making it communism, it's often done by opponents of free software trying to discredit it, sometimes in bad faith, but usually out of the common misunderstanding that it's about money, when it's not.

At the end of the day, the goal of free software is allowing people to have more control over their technological property.

FYI, Stallman is one of (((them))).

>>1033283

A zionist advocating for the supremacy of the jewish faith? Not at all.

Communism forces people to participate. FOSS encourages it.

>>1033283

>FYI, Stallman is one of (((them))).

Stallman has said that he is "an atheist of Jewish ancestry" and often wears a button that reads "Impeach God". - From Stallman's (((wikipedia))) page.