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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday October 02, 2022 @12:10AM (#33052761)
> Meanwhile, some of the Fundamental Freedoms are philosophically undercut in the Cloud era; why should you have the right to view the source code or modify what runs on someone else's computer?

Because the user should have that right regardless of where the program happens to execute.

> The best the GNU philosophy gave us is "don't use Cloud,"

Er, no? They wrote the AGPL.

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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by shadowgovt on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:36PM (#33058209)
> Because the user should have that right regardless of where the program happens to execute.

Sorry, that makes no sense. I have no right to the source code of the bank's ATM, and even less right to run any software I choose on that hardware.

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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:38PM (#33061556)
You're welcome to that opinion, but you're just arguing against Free Software in general; that's exactly the same argument as saying that the user has no right to inspect or control the software running on their own machine.
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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by shadowgovt on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:02PM (#33063042)
It's not the same because the ATM isn't my own machine.

Nor is an AWS node.

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