Just a quick word. In the beginning of the free software movement, Richard Stallman who started this idea of free software, defined four different kind of freedoms about software.

The first, the second, and the third freedom is to take a program and to modify it, to distribute it. That became the open source movement, which now everybody knows about — open data, open source, and so on.

But the zeroth freedom that Stallman defined -- he called it freedom zero -- it means the freedom of doing things with software that affects primarily yourself.

Because he thinks if you have the software and its effect affects everybody, tens of thousands of people, it’s no longer freedom. It is power. A freedom has a very narrow definition that means the software’s decisions enhance yourself, but then it affects primarily you. This is the only way I would like.

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