Nonfree software

What freedoms exactly do proprietary software take away?

share

>>2
That's funny because I'm seeding a shitload of torrents for such software as we speak. Sure, I don't have the legal right to do so, but there's a huge difference between not granting a freedom and taking one away. Deleting the software won't make me any freer.

modify

access to sauce coud

Modify then share
Access to Source Code

yes

>>6
Source Code isn't software by itself. Do you include build environment, scripts, JTAG libraries etc in that?

You can modify binaries pretty easily.

This whole thing would be a non-issue if assembly were more popular... it's not particularly difficult, especially with Ida and friends..

>>6: You can't open a flat screw with a star screw driver.
>>8: Not true! You can melt the driver and re-shape it so it fits!

>>8
Obfuscated assembly.

>>1
Proprietary software forbids users of living a sovereign life. This happens because users are forbidden to use software when one desires (freedom 0) and they are forbidden to study and improve the software they use (freedom 1). The result is that the user must first obtain explicit permission to use or change the software to their specific requirements; this means that users operate their computers subject to the goodwill of the software proprietor.

Proprietary software also forbid users to live as upstanding citizens of their society. Non-free software divides users by forbidding us to share copies of software (freedom 2). Users are also forbidden to contribute to their community by forbidding improvements to be shared (freedom 3). It is natural for society to share tools such as software and yet, proprietors desire to control the sharing. In order for software users to share the proprietary software, the user must share software out of sight of the proprietor. The user must break the promise made to the software proprietor, the promise that forbids the user to share the software. A free citizen shouldn't have to live like this; a free citizen should be able to share freely.

>>8
Software is a set of written instructions designed to control a computational calculator in order to control it to perform a certain information task. The fact that software must first be translated into the computer's language does not negate the fact that software in source code form is still software.

Also, it is completely impractical to make meaningful changes to binary code. Try converting binary software written in x86 language designed and to work on the Windows platform and convert it to work on a computer that understands the OpenRISC language and running upon a GNU/Linux platform. Compare that effort to someone with access to the source code.

>>8
Source code is the source and the associated build scripts necessary to build the source. It is only necessary to mention the environment needed to build the code (Windows XP system, Visual Studio 2005, links to libfoo libbar and libbaz)

>>12
If it's not in the "computer's language", then they're not instructions. By your definition, source code is not software.

You can put some flower, sugar, butter, and chocolate chips into a bowl, but you still have don't have cookies.

>>14
But I do have cookies.

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>>14
PROTIP: software is a set of finite instructions designed to achieve an outcome that is intended to be carried out by a computer.

PROTIP: source code is the human readable form of computer software

>>19
it's not such a clear line and you're an idiot for thinking otherwise.

>>20
Cool story bro. An even better story would include more exciting details like a better definition and example.

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>>19,21
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