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Some questions for my fellow Muslims here (lemdro.id)
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/38140147

I got into free and open source software, you can take an idea about it from fsf by watching the video https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

So, I have been in this rabbit hole for years now. And I convinced myself that using non-free software is haram and I shouldn't do it, however when I looked it up I found no discussion about it In Muslim communities anywhere, no fatwas about it. But how can that be, don't anyone else see big tech companies evil? Shouldn't Muslims use these free as in freedom software instead of Google and Facebook products? Shouldn't products by Facebook, openai and Microsoft and the rest of them be haram with existence of free alternatives that respect user privacy and freedom? Why there's no discussion about it at all?

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Interesting. I'm not a Muslim so I'm asking out of curiosity: upon what basis would proprietary software be haram? Is there some verse that could be interpreted that way?

[-] claim_arguably@lemdro.id 2 points 20 hours ago

I was born Muslim and I sense something off here. I think that schoolers should have made it fard kifaya to provide free software.

Like every mosque should host free software for the city from email to social media like Mastodon for example

So, there no specific verse but free software is more aligned with higher values of islam

Monopoly is haram in islam and big tech do it. Also the idea that a company could control device you own or cancel your subscription any time for any reason or no reason that contract isn't fair and haram.

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