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ElMarkuz t1_j8yfqmm wrote

Reply to comment by rocketlauncher2 in Lobbyist working for Apple and others managed to rewrite NY Right to Repair law. by SUPRVLLAN

From Stallman perspective, a hardware is already "libre" or "free" because you can see what's in there and break it to your liking. But yeah, I agree with you that with mobile devices that's not always true

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blbd t1_j8yyheg wrote

Not quite. Stallman and FSF have written tons of things about the lack of freedom in hardware.

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ElMarkuz t1_j8yzcl2 wrote

I went to a Stallman presentation on a local university and I remember he saying something like what I said, this was 12 years ago, so maybe he changed his mind since then with the new trends imposed by the big tech companies.

Do you remember any good article by them? I also remember reading one from the FSF about how websites are not "free" anymore with the raise in popularity of the js/css bundlers that makes frontend code unreadable

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