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I remember GNOME fan base carrying this "freedom is slavery" narrative way into 2010s.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I remember GNOME fan base carrying this "freedom is slavery" narrative way into 2010s.
- jraph 3y agoWhat do you mean? Do you have pointers? What freedom are you speaking about? Doesn't ring a bell. The only related thing I can think of is the argument that permissive free software license lets people build proprietary software on top of the licensed work, but the argument is not surprising and it's still true. I also don't remember slavery being mentioned. That would be a bit much. Now I can't manage to link this matter of fact with the discussion, KDE and GNOME both being GPL software.
- DonHopkins 3y ago"Linux is only free if your time is worthless."
- jraph 3y agoHow is that relevant to the current discussion? Besides, I hate this sentence. It is very wrong, or true for any OS, whichever you prefer, and I'm seeing it more and more often. This kind of falsehoods doesn't need to be spread like this. Linux just doesn't get in my way and it has just worked for how I've been using my computer for years. To the contrary, the desktop environment and tools it lets me use are very efficient for me.