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by reactordev 196 days ago
This. People conflate consumer to user. A user in the sense of GPL is a programmer or technical person whom the software (including source) is intended for.

Not necessarily a “user of an app” but a user of this “suite of source code”.
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Brian_K_White 196 days ago
Except really the whole point is it explicitly and actively makes no distinction. Every random user has 100% of the same rights as any developer or vendor.
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xorcist 195 days ago
A completely level playing field. There's probably never been a more perfect free market than that in free software.

It turns out that most people who say that value free market capitalism never really did.

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