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But that's not true in Stallman's case. He openly acknowledges it by stating that we should choose freedom over convenience. He recognizes the burden and encour
by tjpick 18y ago
But that's not true in Stallman's case. He openly acknowledges it by stating that we should choose freedom over convenience. He recognizes the burden and encourages people to choose it anyway because freedom is worth fighting for. That's at the core of his message. Its not in the article unfortunately but he does say this at his talks.
- sabat 18y agoWhy not have choices? Cloud computing for those who don't want a bunch of admin work (me), and pure freedom for those who want it? Why does it have to be black-or-white?
- jodrellblank 18y agoYou have the choice - Stallman is just encouraging you to chose the bunch of admin work that you don't want, arguing that the freedom is worth more than the admin work costs.
- tjpick 18y agoor choose to pay someone to do that admin work for you. There is always a cost: your time, your money, or your freedom. Your choice.
- ntoshev 18y agoIs this a true choice? I am choosing convenience, if I need freedom later I can pay the price and get it. For example, I am developing on the closed Google App Engine. If what I'm doing becomes successful and I hit limitations of the platform, I can reimplement the whole thing on an open source stack. But I don't want to pay that cost up front. Edit: Thanks for clarifying what Stallman offers.