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"In reality, Free Software ends up being useful only for programmers, hackers, technical people,"

That is like saying that freedom of speech is only useful for journalists.

You don't have to exercise a freedom to benefit from it. You benefit from others exercising it too. Whether a journalist exposes government corruption, or a security experts independently audits OpenSSL, everyone benefits of the relevant freedom being exercised.

You don't have to be a programmer for benefiting from DeCSS. You don't have to be a hacker to benefit from Apache. You don't have to be a technical person to benefit from WordPress.

The same applies to the reversed, you don't have to be a programmer to suffer from DRM, vendor lock-in, or nag-ware.



"The same applies to the reversed, you don't have to be a programmer to suffer from DRM, vendor lock-in, or nag-ware."

ahh, so you don't want software to be commercial, is that it?




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