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(high) time to start educating children in schools regarding differences in software. preferably as early as primary school. so that every person on this planet better understands what is free, what different types of software licenses do. software and we never ever have to talk again about the offenses taken by people spending free time on software that helps the world spin in a more consistent way...


You overestimate the importance of software development and licensing in the life of the average person. Most people never interact with a software developer or even understand what they do, much less submit bug reports and feature requests to open source projects.




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