It's not about power dynamics, it's about liberty. And ultimately, liberty is ab...

smichel17 · on July 25, 2020

Potayto, potahto. As an example outside of computing, slavery — the antithesis of liberty/autonomy — is the manifestation of an extremely skewed power dynamic.

rexpop · on July 25, 2020

> It's not about power dynamics, it's about liberty.

There's no liberty without the power to preserve it.

dimitrios1 · on July 25, 2020

Couldn't think of a better argument for the second amendment myself.

xmprt · on July 25, 2020

There's tyranny in parts of the US yet most of the second amendment lovers support what the Federal Government is doing (eg. in Portland or DC).

Shared404 · on July 25, 2020

> yet most of the second amendment lovers

Clearly those are not actual second amendment lovers, they are deadly toy lovers, and therefor profess to love the second amendment.

There are those who actually believe in the ideals of the second amendment, the question is how many of them

A) Live in Portland/DC

B) Are willing to put their lives on the line for this.

I'd like to think that if I lived there I would be.

hrhrhrd · on July 25, 2020

That came out of left field.

Shared404 · on July 25, 2020

Why not both?

Yes, it is to protect liberty to do what you will with the software/source.

It is also to make sure that the developers of said software will be in a much more difficult situation when it comes to abusing the users of their software. Stallman talks about this as well.

saurik · on July 25, 2020

Aren't those even the same thing? For users to have liberty implies a specific power dynamic between them and developers.

Shared404 · on July 25, 2020

Indeed. I believe you've phrased it much better then I did.

pabs3 · on July 25, 2020

Liberty for whom? Most of humanity is not economically privileged enough or digitally literate enough to utilise the available digital liberty, let alone able to know that it exists.

microcolonel · on July 25, 2020

Need speech for your guns, guns for your speech; just the way it is.

Not that everything is a power dynamic, looking at life that way kills all your friends and family really quickly.