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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Certainly an improvement.

Courts should still find it unconstitutional because software is free speech. I am all for advancing open source and giving people good reasons to switch to it, but not by setting precedents that governments have any business deciding what features software is allowed or required to have.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Free speech is the right to distribute any kind of information, including software code in either source or compiled form.

    That's what the legal analysis should be anyway. Whether it will be…

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Fair fair, but that would apply only tp the source code, not the compiled binary/iso, not?

    If so, I think I would agree woth that take.

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