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[AI summary] The article explores the nuanced differences between Open Source and Free Software, highlighting that while both grant freedom to use and modify code, they differ fundamentally in ideology, with Open Source focusing on economic benefits and pragmatic control versus the moral philosophy of Free Software.
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Privacy & software freedom have been part of this blog's main theme. I am not an all-out privacy guy who goes above and beyond to cut out any last sort of fingerprinting out of his life, but I sure do enjoy to have control over my digital life. The latest project in line was setting up a private chatting solution. Hosting an XMPP server was the most appealing solution to me.
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[AI summary] The article advocates for using free and open-source video conferencing tools like Jitsi to protect digital privacy and prevent data exploitation by proprietary services.
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Copyleft is the ability of a contributor or distributor to add restrictions to a work. While most open source software allows you to use and modify the code as you want, open source software incorporating copyleft provisions prevent a contributor from making the future software proprietary. Copyleft is a general method for making a program...
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