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What I worry about there is that letting it become too inconvenient to use Free development tools on non-Free platforms will eventually harm the Free Software c
by mumblemumble 4y ago
What I worry about there is that letting it become too inconvenient to use Free development tools on non-Free platforms will eventually harm the Free Software community's ability to produce competitive Free software, by encouraging a brain drain in the communities that develop Free development tools.
- ubermonkey 4y agoIt's not an "eventually" thing. It's happening now, and has been happening for a long time. I don't use much libre software in my day to day (desktop) life because most of it is only good enough if you feel strongly that libre is a value unto itself, and worth hassle. I mostly don't. I mean, in some places, there's definite parity or even advantages on the libre side, but holy crap on the desktop it's bleak.