> Well, i think what you called convenience is mostly a UI question Gordon bennet. No. Do you really think stallman's view is about who owns your car, or about

> Well, i think what you called convenience is mostly a UI question Gordon bennet. No. Do you really think stallman's view is about who owns your car, or about the knobs on the dashboard? From https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/every-non-free-program-is-an-injustice-richard-stallman-on-the-free-software-movement/8474 https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/every-non-free-program-is... : <<< What’s your definition of free software? Free software is software that respects users’ freedom and community. [...] With any program, there are two possibilities: either the users control the program, or the program controls the users. [...] If they don’t have full control over [the program], then it’s user-subjugating, non-free proprietary software — the program controls the users, and the program’s owners control the program, so it becomes an instrument of unjust power for the owner over the users. >>> > although the initial debate was whether we could trust proprietary software at all Precisely that.