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>When you let people give you things for free, you basically let them control you and take away your freedom. How is this different from proprietary software?
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>When you let people give you things for free, you basically let them control you and take away your freedom.
How is this different from proprietary software? Where you have no idea what's going on under the hood?
Granted, "giving in order to get" is a common and effective social engineering tactic.
- throwaway729 10y ago> How is this different from proprietary software? Most free software is proprietary software! Big chunks of Facebook's code base is proprietary, and the data they collect is extremely proprietary. Ditto for google. By "the expectation that software should be free", parent meant the expectation that you don't pay money for access to a hosted copy.
- ksk 10y agoI believe the OP was talking about cost, not source code.