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1) Are you sure you understand the spirit as intended by FSF? They could have that formulated the other way, say "rejecting all files in proprietary format", bu

1) Are you sure you understand the spirit as intended by FSF? They could have that formulated the other way, say "rejecting all files in proprietary format", but what they wrote is different. Why? 2) Where do you get that stupid idea that I want freedom for myself only? If I happen to like Pages I just use it. You are free to use whatever you want, be it Word or OpenOffice. FSF on the other hand wants me to ditch everything in favour of that ugly piece of software. Why should I? More reasonably, your freedom to smoke oppose my freedom to breathe Very wrong analogy. And here, your freedom to use proprietary formats and software oppose my freedom to not use them. No, it does not. I will use what I want, you use what you want. How me using iWork forces you not to use OpenOffice? And please, don't mix proprietary formats and software — they are not the same. As I said, I can produce pdf or rtf or plain text in Pages. All this is just a lame attempt to replace quality with politics.

loup-vaillant 17y ago
(1) Good point. We should actually ask them. (2) Sorry for the confusion, that was careless. Of course your using proprietary software doesn't restrict me directly, unlike your sending me documents in a proprietary format. Now you should still ditch them, because once you're hooked, who knows what evil scheme they could put upon you? (like expensive updates, or even spying) Now, to make it clear, I still use proprietary software (mostly games). But when I do, I am not proud of it, and I tell myself I should stop, eventually. All this is just a lame attempt to replace quality with politics. I am not sure I follow here. The FSF has been about politics from the very begining. From the begining, the FSF asked everyone to ditch proprietary software, even in favour of worse alternatives (quality wise). Quality always came second. What did you mean?

loup-vaillant 17y ago

(1) Good point. We should actually ask them. (2) Sorry for the confusion, that was careless. Of course your using proprietary software doesn't restrict me directly, unlike your sending me documents in a proprietary format. Now you should still ditch them, because once you're hooked, who knows what evil scheme they could put upon you? (like expensive updates, or even spying) Now, to make it clear, I still use proprietary software (mostly games). But when I do, I am not proud of it, and I tell myself I should stop, eventually. All this is just a lame attempt to replace quality with politics. I am not sure I follow here. The FSF has been about politics from the very begining. From the begining, the FSF asked everyone to ditch proprietary software, even in favour of worse alternatives (quality wise). Quality always came second. What did you mean?