Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering company)

Written by
Richard Matthew StallmanSoftware developer and software freedom activist

December 31, 2014

It requires passengers to run a nonfree program (an app). As always, a nonfree program tramples its users’ freedom.

I’m not talking about the software that Uber itself runs; if Uber runs nonfree software, that tramples Uber’s freedom, and Uber deserves our sympathy for that. The injustice here is that Uber requires its users to use special software and digital services that attack their freedom in various ways.

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