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I think the thing you missed is the existence of people like the Free Software Foundation. There are indeed people who are generally opposed to proprietary soft
by streptomycin 10y ago
I think the thing you missed is the existence of people like the Free Software Foundation. There are indeed people who are generally opposed to proprietary software on a philosophical/ethical/moral level.
- kefka 10y agoThe older I get, and the more software work I do, the more I come in parity to FSF's platform as a whole. IoT is a mess right now, purely because of rent-seeking anti-standards, treacherous computing. Do you own your devices? Hardly! Phillips shut down all 3rd party bulbs, and 'graciously' fixed that after a bad 1 day campaign... but retains the ability to do it again. Google destroyed the Revolv servers for no good reason. It trashed all the devices that relied the purely webAPI implemented hardware. I can go on... In the end, I just get sick and tired of being pulled in 1000 different directions, with as many 'cloud providers', doing that many different bad implementations of the same thing (but as their serf in their castle). Open Source is a way out of local computing problems. Open Standards allows me to bring my business elsewhere when I'm alienated. Open Protocols allows me to communicate with other networks and computers. All are essential.