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> Does it matter? His message isn't for non-programmers. His message is pretty much user-centered. (and programmers deserve good message delivery too)

• I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  True, yet most users don't care about the details in any meaningful way. They just want to be able to use a convenient service like Spotify...who cares that they don't OWN the music anymore? Who cares that they don't pay artists as much as they could? The only time it's a problem is when an artist doesn't release their music on a certain platform and it's now work to try and go download a second app, make an account, possibly pay a subscription, and THEN listen to the new album. These are the kind of things users actually care about, not whether the app/backend is FOSS or not. HN is a power user community so it's easy to improperly extrapolate our experiences and what we tolerate to what "normal users" will tolerate.
  • jraph 3y ago
    > most users don't care > who cares that they don't OWN the music anymore? That's the thing, he is trying to raise awareness on this stuff. I do too. If people cared, he'd be mostly done with his raising awareness work. Open source is pretty much a developer issue. Free software, though, is a user issue. (Of course we often use the terms interchangeably)
    • I_Am_Nous 3y ago
      >If people cared, he'd be mostly done with his raising awareness work. This is a good point, and shows why we need people like Stallman to press us on important but unglamorous issues.