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# We're Better Together: Why Free Software needs cooperative hosting # We're Better Together: Why Free Software needs cooperative hosting
Free Software, in part, begins with the premise that those who are most affected by something should have control over it. It is not someone else's computer if we own it collectively. This isn't far from the early days of Free Software, when computing power was a shared resource. Free software, in part, begins with the premise that those who are most affected by something should have control over it. It is not someone else's computer if we own it collectively. This isn't far from the early days of Free Software, when computing power was a shared resource.
To reach its liberatory potential, the Free Software movement needs LibreSaaS and an embrace of cooperative principles. To reach its liberatory potential, the Free Software movement needs LibreSaaS and an embrace of cooperative principles.
Free Software has always been first and foremost about an ethical imperative: to respect the freedom of people using the software and the right of all people to learn from the shared knowledge embedded in software. Free software has always been first and foremost about an ethical imperative: to respect the freedom of people using the software and the right of all people to learn from the shared knowledge embedded in software.
But this has not been enough, as shown both by the continued vitality of proprietary software and the prevalence of the amoral 'open source' framing in Free Software. But this has not been enough, as shown both by the continued vitality of proprietary software and the prevalence of the amoral 'open source' framing in free software.
One part of this is we need to accept a new, unambiguous name, such as Libre Software, or Liberatory Software. One part of this is we need to accept a new, unambiguous name, such as Libre Software, or Liberatory Software.