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Re:Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software by EGreg on Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:47PM (#7436772)
I would say that the FSF is using Free Software as a weapon to get all the other proprietary software to open up.

Usually the biggest barriers to entry by free software are network effects and proprietary agreements. See the recent article about Bloomberg

http://mattturck.com/2014/03/19/can-the-bloomberg-terminal-b...

(I bet someone at bloomberg read it because they released an article the next day: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-20/tesla-can-t...)

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Re:Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software by einhverfr on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:33AM (#7440683)
That's why so much new software is FOSS. It's basically the only way to break in without massive funding and unrealistic expectations.

Again, freedom is economically valuable.

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