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by maxlybbert 4197 days ago
It's a little more than that. As I understand it, he's OK with people choosing to do business with a company along the lines of Facebook or Twitter as long as the customers have the freedom to get all the source code for all relevant web services (and, I believe, the user's own data) if desired. He understands why you might pay to have somebody do something you aren't willing to do yourself, but he believes you should always have the ability to get and modify the source code for all software you use, even if you aren't using it on your own computer.