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Re:White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many ... by otoburb on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:06AM (#12796517)
>>[...] restricts the freedom to restrict freedom [...]

That's a great turn of phrase. I'll try to use it the next time somebody asks me to summarize the GPL, which has similar restrictions built in as per Stallman's original intent.

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Re:White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:48PM (#12798097)
See Karl Popper's "intolerance of intolerance". Rawls and others have also opined.
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Re:White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many ... by wruza on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:18AM (#12803575)
RMS always cared about software freedom, not human's.
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Re:White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many ... by mcv on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:51AM (#12804046)
He cares about the end user's freedom. Not about the intermediary developer's freedom to restrict the end user's freedom.
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