Back to the Source: Why FOSS is More Important Than Ever

Posted by tuxchick on Sep 27, 2014 10:07 AM EDT
linux.com; By Carla Schroder
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We used to take these freedoms for granted with all of our personal property. We can mod our homes, we can buy random items, glue glitter and googly eyes on them and resell them as holiday crafts, we can do anything we want with our own stuff. Except for our digital property. There we run into vast mazy minefields of laws and Digital Rights Management and prohibitions and the idea that we don't own it, but merely license it, so it's not really ours and the vendor has the right to control it, and to control what we do with it.

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