Reclaiming Freedom: Who Holds Veto Over Your Data Stack

Freedom Has Always Been the PointRichard Stallman, who built GNU (GNU Not Unix - a recursive acronym), came up with GNU to solve a more cultural problem (that later became a huge technical debt). His problem wasn’t with the software but the lock: the mechanism that let someone else decide who could use it, modify it, or build on it.This is the first principle worth holding: control over a tool is control over everyone who depends on that tool. It doesn’t matter how good the tool is. Goodness and freedom are orthogonal.