GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 7, 2008 12:16 PM EDT
Datamation; By Bruce Byfield 		Mail this story
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James Maguire, Datamation's managing editor, claims he has no interest in software whose source code is available for editing. "I'm not a software engineer," he says. "If I can't grab it off the shelf, I can't use it." He's half-joking, of course. But he echoes the opinion of many people outside the free and open source software (FOSS) community about what its efforts are about. Ask average computer users what FOSS is about, and, if they've even heard of it, they'll probably say something about the source code being publicly available.

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