Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by squarefoot on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:09AM
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> So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.
That might seem ironical in multiple ways: a dictatorship where freedom of expression is suppressed that promotes FLOSS because they don't trust closed software. Maybe the western world can learn a lesson or two from that.
Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by pabs3 on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:32AM
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Its probably more that they care about having the source code and being able to modify and rebuild it rather than the FLOSS licenses. For most proprietary software you don't have the source.
That might seem ironical in multiple ways: a dictatorship where freedom of expression is suppressed that promotes FLOSS because they don't trust closed software. Maybe the western world can learn a lesson or two from that.