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newbie2017
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Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
>IMO this is a side product of the "software must be free" mentality.
"Software must be free" usually means free and in speech not free as in beer.
hasenj
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RMS definition of free still leads to free as in beer because it requires that the user has the freedom to distribute the sides for free (as in beer).
newbie2017
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But Facebook is not "free as in speech" but is "free as in beer". That's why it is a "Structural Threat."
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Free as in beer
newbie2017
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Thanks for the correction.
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"Software must be free" usually means free and in speech not free as in beer.