>Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver.
>Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver.
In the fixing mode, Stallman was not operating as a user, he was operating as a developer. This is a "freedom 1" activity, which is a freedom that is only useful for developers.
The user and the developer can not be fully separated when it comes to freedom here. Modification of software, and redistribution of that modification is fundamentally a developer activity. Non-developer users can hire developers to do what they want, but ultimately there's a developer involved in this, otherwise what's the point of source code?
>Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver.
>Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver.
In the fixing mode, Stallman was not operating as a user, he was operating as a developer. This is a "freedom 1" activity, which is a freedom that is only useful for developers.
The user and the developer can not be fully separated when it comes to freedom here. Modification of software, and redistribution of that modification is fundamentally a developer activity. Non-developer users can hire developers to do what they want, but ultimately there's a developer involved in this, otherwise what's the point of source code?