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@smith558 your comment also presumes that authors should control where a work is spread, which is fundamentally anti-freedom and unethical; sharing is beneficial to society.

No, libre works are the only kind of works which respect the freedom of private property, and allow you to do the same things you are allowed to do with...

I use a throwaway account because I don't want to give my real name to Microsoft who own Github. Hence, your claims based on the two supposed suggestions from my...

@AgustinCB I forgot to @ you and add a couple of points: Nobody should have the right to release a proprietary work, just as nobody should have the right to...

> This whole conversation being framed as a parallelism with slavery makes me very uncomfortable. Your comfort is irrelevant. > Well, that is the problem: ... It is not uncontroversial...

@AgustinCB I apologise, I again forgot to @ you. To add another point in response to: > Don't consume the product. I am not using this work until it is...

@tbenst what does it say about the sickness of our society when begging and grovelling for freedom, and putting in the effort to politely argue your case is seen as...

"MIT/BSD" is ambiguous. Does "MIT" mean Expat or the X11 license or some other license? Which BSD license specifically? (https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html)

Essentially I was told by one user to put up and shut up, ie. I, nor any other user, deserves freedom, and I should instead, to paraphrase, "spend about a...