> I'm quite sick of some of the attitudes I see on HN sometimes around "closed source" like it's some evil thing. >> Proprietary software generally leaves soci

> I'm quite sick of some of the attitudes I see on HN sometimes around "closed source" like it's some evil thing. >> Proprietary software generally leaves society worse off than if that same software were free and open source. In that sense, it is some evil thing. I can agree with that but it also must follow that the choice is "closed" or "open" when often the choice is "closed" or not at all. It reminds me of the piracy arguments that equate 1 downloaded movie to 1 lost movie sale when in fact if the pirate was unable to download it for free they would not have paid for it at all and just gone without >> I would like to think that the "closed source software is evil" crowd is mutually exclusive to the "fawning over SV unicorn" crowd. You are probably largely right here. I wouldn't go as far as to say "mutually exclusive" as it's easy for people to get caught up in the hype of the moment and chide someone for not OS'ing something or complaining that more stuff should be OS minutes after they commented about how great Uber/Lyft are (or similar). I know that I have, at times, felt the "righteous anger" against something being closed source or been ready to jump on the commenting bandwagon before stopping to think about it.