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Fully agreed. I was thinking of something similar, only I was calling it "Right to execute", similarly to the "Right to repair". I'm buying a general computing device. It's ridiculous I'm artificially limited in using it for the main purpose of making shareholders rich.

Ideally I'd add a mandatory toolchain to that. At least a C compiler which should be able to target a device I own.



I just call it "Software Freedom", like GNU has since the 80s:

> the freedom to change a program, so that you can control it instead of it controlling you

I don't necessarily endorse all of Stallman's philosophy on software. But I think in this point at least he was very prescient.




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