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0 pointshombre_fatal6mo ago0 comments

Maybe you are lasering in on a term we use to describe software, but they are talking more broadly about maintaining open source (lower case, btw) collaborative software.

- https://lkml.org/

- https://www.postgresql.org/list/

Though I have to be very charitable to grant your point.

Even your examples support their point of "people who want to make software better for everyone, not just for themselves or a select few". Stallman just cared about code, like fixing his printer, and not a whole social movement?

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nickelpro6mo ago

> Stallman just cared about code, like fixing his printer, and not a whole social movement?

Stallman created a social movement that just cared about code, yes. He needed the social movement to create an environment in which he could fix his printer.

The social movement was about the license and the code, not about providing support for, documentation of, or continuing development of any particular code.

By creating an environment where code is open, you allow for communities to organically form around code and maintain it. Without the environment, without the code and the license, the communities cannot form.