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> It is never a good idea to project your own hypocrisy onto everybody else. I didn't. I was speaking generally. I don't call you out specifically. In fact,

> It is never a good idea to project your own hypocrisy onto everybody else. I didn't. I was speaking generally. I don't call you out specifically. In fact, I explicitly make mention that there are probably people who are sincere about this. What I wonder is how much of the uproar is from people that do use an Android or iOS device. That do use Gmail. That use Facebook or Google+. Or support companies that share data. Simply put: next time, don't be so antagonistic. I wasn't projecting anything onto anyone else, including you. Rereading my comment, I can only assume that you misread what I wrote, and assumed I said things I did not.

dandelion_lover 11y ago
I am using gmail account and I am a part of this 'uproar'. There is no contradiction here, despite you may think so. I just used 'normal' services as (almost) everyone and at some point I found Stallman's articles and they opened me the whole new world. It is however not easy at all to switch to free software right from the first day. You have to change quite a few workflows. I have a job and I cannot just spend a month to reinstall everything and to get used to free software alternatives. I switch to these alternatives slowly but constantly. Simply put: "how many people complaining about these issues are using an Android or iOS device?" is irrelevant. What relevant is how many people know about it and will be happy to change it, but not necessarily for these high costs as I pay.