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Re:If software companies ran the country (1987) by chasil on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:30AM (#29228531)
Actually, I was thinking more of the GPL.

I read the full wikis on Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger over the weekend, and it got me thinking.

What if Richard Stallman ran the country?

How would commercial, closed source software be punished?

There is no doubt that it would be.

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Re:If software companies ran the country (1987) by amelius on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:57AM (#29228855)
Reminds me of:

https://openclipart.org/detail/143659/che-stallman

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Re:If software companies ran the country (1987) by quantified on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @02:48AM (#29237976)
The GPL is absolutely regulation, it’s just in a different direction.

Getting a software company that employs/backs GPL in the first place…

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