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This perspective has a huge following on Hacker News and it's baffling. This site celebrates clever reuse of technology, creative thinking, and open source. But
by Steltek 4y ago
This perspective has a huge following on Hacker News and it's baffling. This site celebrates clever reuse of technology, creative thinking, and open source. But when Apple comes up, some people close down completely and the sharply defined cognitive dissonance looks very cult-like.
- marcellus23 4y agoHN consists of multiple people who can each have different opinions. It's not a single person that simultaneously holds anti-closed-source and pro-Apple mindsets. A small number of people here might seem to, but I bet if you asked them to explain their position, it would make sense according to their worldview.
- anonuser123456 4y agoI like using what Apple builds and I don't like forcing people to operate by coercion. Apple builds and sells a product. If you don't like it... use something else. As a customer would I personally put pressure on them? Sure. But the authoritarian coercive approach proposed by some is harmful at best. If believing in freedom is a cult, count me in.
- fatneckbeard 4y agoapple has acted against principles of free speech quite often.