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Re:Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork And... by xenophonf on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:52PM (#7202349)
Free software assumes that all end users might want to modify it, regardless of those users' current skill set. I may not be capable of modifying kernel source code today, but who knows what the future might bring.
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Re:Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork And... by ahomescu1 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @06:35PM (#7203393)
Even if end users can't modify it themselves, they can hire developers to do it. This effectively creates a market for software customization/personalization, whereas closed-source software is more akin to a monopoly (whoever holds the source code, holds the monopoly to fixing bugs/adding features).
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