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> What could go wrong? The GNU project would be promoting proprietary software by requiring free software developers to use proprietary software. As there exis
by cyphar 9y ago
> What could go wrong?
The GNU project would be promoting proprietary software by requiring free software developers to use proprietary software. As there exist free alternatives, such promotion would negatively impact the free software movement (people would say "why not use GitHub? GNU decided that it was okay!").
That is enough of a reason to discount proprietary services. It's that simple.
> much more visibility;
... for GitHub as well. Which is one of the main issues.
> We are all against slavery, but I don't see anybody on HN refusing to post a comment here because their laptop is being build by slavery[sic] labor in China. Which they all are.
Non-sequitur. "X is bad, so why are you caring about Y (which is less bad)".
- sametmax 9y agoThat's actually a much better reason that what's been used before. As for non sequitur, it's not. There is no moral comparison, i'm just saying that practicality beats purity and that we all do it so advocating purity is defintly not credible.
- cyphar 9y ago> i'm just saying that practicality beats purity and that we all do it so advocating purity is definitely not credible This is like arguing that a member of the Vegeterian Foundation should buy chicken rather than chick-peas because chicken is easier to cook. Or because the chick-peas are being produced using animal fertilizers. There are many criteria by which you can evaluate software. Usability is one of them. Software freedom is another. The GNU project proritises the latter over the former. More importantly it's got nothing to do with "purity". I really don't understand how people are surprised that the Free Software Foundation prioritises Free Software as a criteria over anything else.
- sametmax 9y agoNo that's fair enough.