> It left me with the lasting bias that free software is liberating and proprietary software leads to learned helplessness. That’s totally it and I’m very conc

> It left me with the lasting bias that free software is liberating and proprietary software leads to learned helplessness. That’s totally it and I’m very concerned about the current/future generations of people who are using fully locked proprietary hardware as their main computer. I have the feeling that this creates an artificial barrier between technology literates and the rest of the world. Sure, it’s probably good for my career but it sounds terribly wrong to live in such a dystopian world. Even the grandmother of the author is very lucky. Because once your grandmother of the future buys the cheapest Surface/Chinese android tablet… good luck installing Linux on this.