Leaning Towards Freedom
The advocates of free software -- not just open source, but free as in freedom -- talk about the use of computers as a basic human right. It probably is. But I see freedom as a direction to lean into, rather than a specific path or goal to be obtained.
Some of this thinking was sparked by Matt Asay's column about how free-software advocates are taking entirely the wrong tack when marketing open source:
... we're not talking about essential human rights here. We're talking about getting work done with software.
Precisely. Most anybody reading this will know that. So why do the free-software folks conflate the two, talking about the use of software as if it were a basic human right? Because in their eyes, it is, and that's the end of it.
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