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>My new idea is that the install fest could allow the devil to hang around, off in a corner of the hall, or the next room. (Actually, a human being wearing sign
by asddubs 6y ago
>My new idea is that the install fest could allow the devil to hang around, off in a corner of the hall, or the next room. (Actually, a human being wearing sign saying “The Devil,” and maybe a toy mask or horns.) The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers in the user’s machine to make more parts of the computer function, explaining to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree (unjust) program.
I'll disagree that this is "cringe" (which is a word that I hate, unrelatedly), it's actually pretty funny and probably a good way to communicate their message while still conceding the compromise, in my opinion. But that's mostly a small disagreement and obviously not the main point of the article
- arp242 6y agoI actually don't really like the word either, but I don't really know of a good alternative.