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Re:Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web by antoineMoPa on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:57PM (#12748790)
There is a paradox about free software users:

Free software users are often talented at making privacy-limiting closed source /(web)?/ applications, thus limiting the freedom of the other users. Example: Zuckerberg & facebook.

This makes me wonder: How to lead a successful programming career without limiting other users' freedom?

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Re:Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web by cyphar on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:34AM (#12749749)
> This makes me wonder: How to lead a successful programming career without limiting other users' freedom?

Work for a free software company. SUSE and RedHat are the classic examples, though many others exist. [ Full Disclosure: I work as a free software developer at SUSE.]

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