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>Free software isn't a moral good in itself, and non-free software isn't a moral evil in itself; I disagree. Proprietary software is anti-user and anti-develop
by milesrout 10y ago
>Free software isn't a moral good in itself, and non-free software isn't a moral evil in itself;
I disagree. Proprietary software is anti-user and anti-developer. In my experience, even the sort of people that don't care either way about whether their operating system is open source get upset at the idea of the View Source button on a webpage going away, for example.
Free software is ethically good in comparison to proprietary software, which is definitely ethically bad in its own right.