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>> In the fixing mode, Stallman was not operating as a user, he was operating as a developer.

At one time they were very often the same thing




They are not anymore. Insisting on old ideas because they used to make sense in the past is .. well .. kind of dogmatic.


No, but that's not relevant because what quickly happened is that communities of programmers grew around free software projects on which they collaborated, and they made their work widely and easily available at cost of distribution only, which quickly became zero. This means that users of free software don't have to be programmers to benefit from it, and indeed most of them aren't.




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