Another of the reasons that I love FLOSS is the way it works, and the culture that surrounds it, is the fact it allows people work and form communities around it as they would normally do. The best software that come out from FLOSS is one where people can claim as their own, and work on it as they can.
In many ways, FLOSS represents people working together in order to produce what they need in they way that best suits them. It really it's the software of the people, for the people and by the people. This is the way software needs to be made, and worked on in order to make it the best possible for use it's intended.
People should be able to come together to work on the software they need, to develop it and share it with others freely. Others should also be able to take the source code of any software to be used and modified to suit their needs, with the only condition that they give credit to the original developers and share those modifications back to the community so they can be used by other in the same way they used the original code.
We need to make FLOSS the norm, so that people can truly benefit from the full potential that software can have to benefit people's lives.
People have the need to share what they find and do with others, and FLOSS gives people the best option to do in the most beneficial way to everyone involved. It's a model where developers and users stand to receive the benefits from their work in a more equal fashion.
The model that FLOSS brings to the table is one that makes people and their needs the focal point, not the originator of the software. That's the way it needs to be, since technology needs to be at our service.
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