Comments on: Mainstream media favors price at expense of freedom, fairness http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2007/10/14/mainstream-media-favors-price-at-expense-of-freedom-fairness/ Free Software movement news and related interests. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:13:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2007/10/14/mainstream-media-favors-price-at-expense-of-freedom-fairness/comment-page-1/#comment-1384 Anonymous Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:53:09 +0000 http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2007/10/14/mainstream-media-favors-price-at-expense-of-freedom-fairness/#comment-1384 The gratis availability of free software initially attracted me to free software. Learning about the rhetoric of social solidarity and liberty of free software is what kept me here. Computers are only tools, but since *we* possess *our own the computer*, *we* should have full rights to control it. Source code to software is required for this. We should also have the right to be good neighbours by having the liberty to share the resource of computer software with neighbours. The gratis availability of free software initially attracted me to free software. Learning about the rhetoric of social solidarity and liberty of free software is what kept me here.

Computers are only tools, but since *we* possess *our own the computer*, *we* should have full rights to control it. Source code to software is required for this. We should also have the right to be good neighbours by having the liberty to share the resource of computer software with neighbours.

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