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We're Better Together: Why Free Software needs cooperative hosting
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.
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.
The bigger part is living up to such a new name by empracing the need to expand our ethical considerations for software to its real-world impacts.
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