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> It’s ok if you don’t believe in software freedoms, but you shouldn’t pretend to be someone who does by releasing some software that respects users’ software f
by freedomben 2y ago
> It’s ok if you don’t believe in software freedoms, but you shouldn’t pretend to be someone who does by releasing some software that respects users’ software freedoms. It’s deceptive.
As long as the different parts are clearly marked/indicated as such, why would you impose such a ridiculous standard? In your world, if a company makes 99% of their software GPL, and then releases some proprietary tool, they're suddenly being deceptive? Would you prefer to just lose the 99%?
- sneak 2y agoI would prefer companies be up front about whether or not they believe in software freedoms for users. In the example case, they plainly do not, otherwise they would not subject their users to nonfree software. I don’t think wishing vendors to be honest is a ridiculous standard.