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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by StillBored on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:08PM (#17234148)
I think the difference is that instead of shipping a modified copy of the software, you ship a "patch" which fixes the software. That was very common years ago, whole markets existed for providing improved functionality of some portion of various OS's (macos, dos, s390, etc) via hooking and patching.

Of course its seems that that freedom is now restricted as well, but that is a fairly recent development that can be laid at the feet of the DRM advocates.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by reificator on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @01:01AM (#17235117)
Relatively recent? There are developers in the workforce today who were born after the DMCA.

That's not recent anymore.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by syshum on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:54AM (#17236221)
Man I am old, makes me sad for those who did not experience more freedom so have no frame of reference to understand why DMCA is bad

Also makes me fearful that we will ever be able to reform or get rid of DMCA

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