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Yeah, but what’s the alternative? When using proprietary software on windows/mac, somebody somewhere decides how you’ll be living your life from now on and you
by znpy 3y ago
Yeah, but what’s the alternative?
When using proprietary software on windows/mac, somebody somewhere decides how you’ll be living your life from now on and you just suck it up. They might even decide that your perfectly working hardware is deprecated and drop support. Or decide that from now on you have to pay a monthly toll to keep using their software. And you have no way to voice on the matter.
Freedom has its price.
- whensdinner 3y agoWindows or macOS is the alternative. You don't get to trot out the "but big software will decide how your devices work" bogeyman when Linux literally just did the exact same thing to this person.
- viraptor 3y agoThe point there is not that the decision will be made - that can happen anywhere. The difference is that in one of those, you can still patch the old behaviour. In the other two you can only raise a bug and hope somebody cares.
- prmoustache 3y agoWell in a windows or macOS case, there is usually no workaround. In this specific case user can still boot the old kernel version or decide to compile the old module.