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Free Software Means Not Monopolies With Publicly-Available Code

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RS
Roy Schestowitz
Jan 7, 2020

Packages such as systemd (packages would be an understatement that’s like calling Linux a package) present a new kind of threat, which some in the community have dubbed ???Open Source Proprietary Software??? (or OSPS for short); we need prominent groups and projects to highlight the nature of this threat, which serves to promote monopolies (open gateway into complexity, aided by silence and complicity)

RS

Roy Schestowitz

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