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> So many of us depend on their products that we’d be devastated if they destroyed their ecosystem for no good reason This is what free software people have be
by jraph 5y ago
> So many of us depend on their products that we’d be devastated if they destroyed their ecosystem for no good reason
This is what free software people have been warning against for decades now, and yet governments and big structures still willingly give their hands to be tied instead of allocating some funds to the development of solutions that don't have this problem and would be far more cost-effective in the end.
When will the world wake up?
- scrollaway 5y agoI'm a FOSS advocate. Please don't make it sound like that. There's plenty of issues with FOSS, including funding. Like, what we also warn about the fact that a majority of people on earth directly or indirectly depend on projects like, I dunno, coreutils, openssh and what not which receive fuck-all funding.
- pessimizer 5y agoYou're replying to a message asking why we don't fund FOSS by saying the problem with FOSS is a lack of funding.
- iso1631 5y ago"But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html That's nearly 25 years old. Fortunately we can still use Free operating systems on at least desktop and laptops, but if you choose to use proprietary software, you get what you get.
- ttt0 5y agoEULAs already often prohibit disassembling the binary. That feels completely crazy to me, it's like saying that you aren't allowed to press Ctrl-U on a website. Is it actually legally binding?