> I wish free software advocates would stop calling proprietary software immoral. Makes sense. I don't mind proprietary software as long as it doesn't exploit

> I wish free software advocates would stop calling proprietary software immoral. Makes sense. I don't mind proprietary software as long as it doesn't exploit its users. > If anything, free software underlies and has enables the locked in, sever based, surveillance monetizing world we live in. Um, what? This is one of the most absurd statements I've seen this week. Whether a software is free or proprietary has absolutely nothing to do with the surveillance business. I fail to understand how you can demonize free software developers for enabling the surveillance economy or whatever when there are many, many proprietary software out there that's specifically developed for the sole purpose of spying on you. You might as well condemn hardware companies for selling computers because that also enables the surveillance economy too.