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by goodpoint 1884 days ago
Every developer is also an user.

And "user" freedom is more important because we use tenths of millions of SLOC and do development work on a small fraction.

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The copyright holder is never a user in a discussion about distribution rights, though.
...in a very narrow sense where one person or organization owns all the copyright on a codebase.

This can be true for a small program on a microcontroller, but 99.9% of FOSS is deployed as part of a big ecosystem.

For each line of code I deploy on production there's 1000 lines of kernel, libraries, daemons, firmware.

As developers, we are 0.1% developers and 99.9% users.