Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?
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Code should be protected under the first amendment
Sure, but again. That is only legally binding in US jurisdiction?
Only binding in the USA. Thoroughly ignored outside of it.
Source code is — Bernstein v. United States Department of Justice
Thanks for mentioning this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
You are correct
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https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
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Maybe consult the literature they linked? I don’t know what special enlightenment you received that you know better than anyone else in the world about the US Constitution First Amendment, but regardless, in the scope of the topic (cryptographic algorithms), they are completely right.
Why doesn’t it? The wiki of that case states that source code is protected under the 1st Amendment. So what’s the problem?
There’s no free speech under capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright
There is free speech in pretty much every capitalist country on the planet, but not in a single communist or socialist country of the present or past.
Keep your Communist ideals out if this please
Communism and Linux are completely unrelated.
They are
No part of open source puts value in collaboration and democratising the means of the production. Free software is definitely not about reducing inherent contradictions and exploitation that arise from your livelihood being dependant on someone else’s private property.
Though sometimes you get confused randos like this saying stuff they don’t understand, probably where the confusion stems from.
That sounds like the real Linus alright. Was that on Tw(X)tter or Threads or Bluesky or Mastodon ?
The Akkoma instance hosted on kernel.org
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm
Wow! Thank you 🙂 🐧