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You're comparing users of OpenBSD to users of GNU/Linux, but why not compare both of them to users of Windows and OS X? Why is FLOSS software pitted against eac
by Flimm 10y ago
You're comparing users of OpenBSD to users of GNU/Linux, but why not compare both of them to users of Windows and OS X? Why is FLOSS software pitted against each other, instead of FLOSS software against proprietary and closed source software?
- chungy 10y agoI'm sorry, I didn't mean to pit them against each other, just pointing out that users of either system enjoy the same freedoms regardless of the license choices. :-) Windows, OS X, iOS, and all other proprietary systems do, in fact, restrict users and objectively have fewer freedoms than free ones.
- AimHere 10y agoAnd there is, or was, BSD code in both Windows and OSX, some of which was locked off in proprietary parts. OSX also contains some GPLed code, all of which is available to the user under righteous free software terms (as is at least some of their permissive-licensed code). The problem that Stallman and the FSF complain about isn't the relative freedom of the users of OpenBSD and GNU/Linux, but what happens to the freedoms of users who are further downstream.