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Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement by kmeisthax on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:51AM (#31067560)
The average person also buys into the standard copyright argument of "you should own your creativity"; accepting software freedom requires, at a minimum, rejecting software copyright categorically[0]. This is a left-of-Marx view: even the extreme left does not touch copyright beyond anticapitalist generalities.

In contrast, right to repair does not require abandoning the entire framework of copyright. In fact, it barely touches it. Furthermore, Louis Rossman is way better at explaining the problems with anti-repair bullshit than RMS is at explaining the harms of proprietary software.

[0] Yes I know GPL relies upon copyright to work. That was the backup plan - if we can't force all software to be Free we can at least keep our own software from being locked down.

Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement by ece on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:21AM (#31067689)
Software as individual expression, or as IP to be defended do not need to be in your face opposite extremes. They aren't in most cases. Open source is one middle ground, open hardware or documented hardware can be another.

I do think copyright reform has favored individual expression recently, and I don't see this changing.