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Just depends on who your users are, and if they care about free software. But, in general, yes... it is probably wishful thinking. But just because the future
by bcg1 11y ago
Just depends on who your users are, and if they care about free software.
But, in general, yes... it is probably wishful thinking. But just because the future looks dismal doesn't mean that you don't give it your best shot.
- sdegutis 11y agoEDIT: never mind, I'm an idiot :)
- andreasvc 11y agoThere's always something worse happenning somewhere. That's not a reason not to care about things like this.
- leoc 11y agoAdditionally, if you dislike terror threats and completely broken democracy, you're going to not-love how they interact with opaque and treacherous software and online services in the future.
- sdegutis 11y agoEDIT: never mind, I'm an idiot :)
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoYou really think there's more people concerned over proprietary software than ISIS? It seems your gauging of public outrage is disproportionate to real levels of public outrage. In any event, it's a fallacy of relative privation.
- Karunamon 11y agoThis is a fallacy - we all have to direct our time and resources as we see fit, and it is not feasible or reasonable to expect everyone with a keyboard to contribute in some way to the downfall of ISIS. Besides, given that we live in the information age, the legal treatment of the software that controls our world is Kind Of A Big Deal.
- anc84 11y agoYet you just spent time writing a comment on the internet because someone wrote something you disagree with (which means, something bad happened).