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Stallman believes that you should vote with your feet and avoid using non-free software, and that if we all did this for everything there would be no space for
by hugh3 16y ago
Stallman believes that you should vote with your feet and avoid using non-free software, and that if we all did this for everything there would be no space for non-free software in the market.
And this falls under the mantle of "consumer protection" how? Maybe a world with no non-free software would be better for me personally, or maybe it wouldn't (I think it probably wouldn't), but trying to create a world in which a particular product category doesn't exist doesn't exist isn't consumer protection.
[Silly counterexamples include: flamethrowing baby-cribs. Fine, abolishing flamethrowing baby cribs does count as consumer protection.]
- avar 16y agoI said "grassroots" consumer protection. He's suggesting that people that use software band together and collectively reject software under proprietary licenses. Because doing so creates a bigger market for free programs, and reduces the market for proprietary ones. There are similar movements that advocate boycotting e.g. out of season fruit, or goods manufactured by oppressive countries.
- rimantas 16y agoBecause doing so creates a bigger market for free programs, and reduces the market for proprietary ones. And this protects consumers how exactly?