A modern world: the case for software freedom

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It’s been proven time and time again that the strongest solutions come from ideas that are shared, reworked and iterated upon among groups of curious minds

Software freedom is the idea that software and its source code is free to access, use, study, distribute and modify. Whatever the purpose, and whoever the user. Today, free and open source softw...

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