alt Hacker NewsStallman didn’t even conceive of this threat. Would it be any better if it was an open source dystopian mind-control machine?
Stallman didn’t even conceive of this threat. Would it be any better if it was an open source dystopian mind-control machine?
Open source, as in corporate outsourcing software maintenance to free labour? No. Free software, as in four freedoms? Yes, because you could install your own firmware that doesn't show advertisements.
That's what the whole GPLv3 debacle was about after all.
Stallman may have not imagined this specific scenario, but he absolutely did conceive of owner-hostile software that could not be replaced.