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by vinsci 1646 days ago
More or extended features are not automatically a good thing for the users. Microsoft extended Kerberos with incompatible changes, re-published it under a diffeerent name, users lost open source benefits and became locked in to the Microsoft version, and the original developers were not provided with the changes. Microsoft did almost the same thing with Sun's Java when Microsoft made its incompatible version, despite Java being available in a free as in freedom version and at no cost.

The four essential freedoms[1] might not make you rich, but they will keep providing you with true freedom.

Wolfram Mathematica would be a more valuable contribution to the future of humankind, if the essential freedoms were guaranteed.

[1] gnu.org The Free Software Definition: The four essential freedoms.