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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by newbie2017 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:33AM (#13868323)
>IMO this is a side product of the "software must be free" mentality.

"Software must be free" usually means free and in speech not free as in beer.

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by hasenj on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:09PM (#13872755)
RMS definition of free still leads to free as in beer because it requires that the user has the freedom to distribute the sides for free (as in beer).
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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by newbie2017 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:39AM (#13876391)
But Facebook is not "free as in speech" but is "free as in beer". That's why it is a "Structural Threat."
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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by simplehuman on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:46AM (#13868460)
Free as in beer
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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by newbie2017 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:24PM (#13870081)
Thanks for the correction.
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