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		lolinder 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redis is open source again Corporations are collections of humans. There are certain ways in which extending human rights to corporations a mistake, but allowing them to use free software isn't one of them: either the individuals in the company are able to use the software or they are not, and if they are not then the software is not free.

KingMob 88 days ago [–]

> allowing them to use free software isn't one of them

I never said corps shouldn't be allowed to use free software.

But I do think corps should not be allowed to be economic free riders of any software.

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