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>Stallman himself is OK with using proprietary software if it runs on someone else's machine. RMS is against "Service as a Software Substitute" https://www.gnu
by garaetjjte 6y ago
>Stallman himself is OK with using proprietary software if it runs on someone else's machine.
RMS is against "Service as a Software Substitute" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.en https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
One could argue that GitHub is SaaSS, because eg. issue system encourages lock-in to specific service, instead of communicating via free email client.
- ancarda 6y agoI wonder if using a public instance of free software is a problem? i.e. https://sr.ht https://sr.ht is an instance of Sourcehut. I figure if it turns nasty, or is going to disappear, I can take my data to a self-hosted instance.