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On the essence of free software – or: How your smartphone could outlast ten years
Your mobile phone could endure longer than one or two years – if its manufacturer were not perfidiously trying to prevent that. This blog article outlines why one of the dustiest areas of digital politics could yield huge progress with regard to sustainability.
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Why GitHub Copilot doesn’t violate free software licences
GitHub’s new code completion is an AI trained using free software. Many see this as a copyright infringement of copyleft licences, but this is dangerous half-knowledge. Read here why this is the case and why stricter copyright law won’t get us anywhere.