Post B0RZ9gIXkwbAr09VIG by anotherposter@shitposter.world
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       2025-11-20T17:24:10.677745Z
       
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       > And then there are all the people who use computers and say that the computers are a mystery to them, they don't know [how] they work. Well how can they possibly know? They can't read the programs they're using. The only way people learn how programs should be written, or how programs do what they do, is by reading the source code.> So I could only wonder whether the idea of the user who just thinks of the computer as a tool is not actually a self-fulfilling prophecy, a result of the practice of keeping source code secret.https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.en.html