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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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