Without the philosophical and political movement, would we have the freedom to start all this at the first place?
Umm, you're suggesting the Richard Stallman wasn't a programmer when he started the Free Software GNU project? And that the Free Software movement, given its name, isn't mainly about writing software based on the four kinds of freedom outlined in the Free Software definition?
Richard Stallman had practical problems to solve, caused by not having access to the source code of a printer driver or a Lisp development system for instance, and decided it was a major problem in general. He didn't get philosophical first.
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Umm, you're suggesting the Richard Stallman wasn't a programmer when he started the Free Software GNU project? And that the Free Software movement, given its name, isn't mainly about writing software based on the four kinds of freedom outlined in the Free Software definition?
Richard Stallman had practical problems to solve, caused by not having access to the source code of a printer driver or a Lisp development system for instance, and decided it was a major problem in general. He didn't get philosophical first.