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Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy. rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. As

• notyourday 7y ago
  > Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy My wife does not care about "how" or "why". She wants to have a show from Netflix on our TV downstairs with one to two clicks. I want her to be happy because happy wife means happy life. "Free" + unhappy wife < non-"free" + happy wife. FSF's obsession with 100% "free" got us Hurd which in 2019 looks like it is from 1994.
• spookthesunset 7y ago
  > rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. In order for that to work, society as we know it would need to be structured completely different. Who is going to build all this free software? How will they get paid? And before you mumble on about "you can get paid for free software", show me how it is done on the scale required to build a netflix or a facebook. Who will build a device as elegant as an iphone with free software? How will it get funded. Again, for it to work, you'd have to restructure the whole world from the ground up. That ain't gonna happen. I'm not even sure it would be desirable....