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Not quite. It's possible to live in the modern world using only Free and Open Source software. Stallman does this, but I think he's pretty much alone.
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Not quite. It's possible to live in the modern world using only Free and Open Source software. Stallman does this, but I think he's pretty much alone.
- a3n 6y agoI've read that he borrows people's phones.
- boogies 6y agoWikipedia says there are ~350,665 Old Order Amish (apparently in the New World? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_College,_the_Young_Center_for_Anabaptist_and_Pietist_Studies-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_...).
- est31 6y agoThis is not an exaggeration. Nowadays basically anything you buy that uses electricity also has chips included for various purposes. Those chips of course run proprietary software.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoSure, but I'd meant live in the modern world in the sense of living in tech-enabled society, rather than just living in the current day.