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Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)
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The source to the free software development support service SourceForge was once available to its users but its authors have returned to a completely closed model. The GNU GPL license and source code mean little to a user attempting to modify a program without free access to the software required to make that modification. To compromise our principles in attempts to achieve more freedom is self-defeating, unstable, and ultimately unfair, to our users and to the larger free software development community.
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