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This... is an insane take. It's "humiliating" for you to use the communication platform your company has chosen?
by gkoberger 5y ago
This... is an insane take. It's "humiliating" for you to use the communication platform your company has chosen?
- richm31415 5y agoIt can be, yes. For someone who is a strong believer in and advocate of FOSS, who makes her/his livelihood developing FOSS for a FOSS software company, to be forced to use proprietary solutions where there are reasonable FOSS alternatives can be very disheartening, demoralizing, and even humiliating.
- Melatonic 5y agoI am not sure still why it is humiliating specifically - disheartening sure, demoralizing makes sense. But why would it be humiliating if you are not the person pushing that the paid / non FLOSS app be used in the first place? Isn't this also a good chance to evangelize an alternative to whomever you are speaking with?
- ask_b123 5y agoI also thought of that as being a chance to 'evangelize' FLOSS alternatives. The first thing I actually thought of was this set of verses talking about evangelizing in a somewhat similar context: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A20-23 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9...
- enriquto 5y agoI'm an activist for software freedom and I refuse to use non-free software in my life, as a matter of principle. When I'm forced to do so it's certainly very humiliating for me. Besides, I don't work for a company, but in the public sector (which by the way I think it should not impose non-free software nor secret protocols into the citizens).
- kuu 5y ago> as a matter of principle > by the way I think "Maybe" it's you the one putting that burden on yourself. I got that you prefer to use open/free sw, but to feel humiliated by it... As the other commenter mentions, it's over the top...