This, but unironically. Software politics is autism. Real people in the real world don't give a tenth of a fuck about this. They care if the software meets their needs, everything else is secondary.
Sell me on free software. Why should it be important for me to use it?
Jaxson Bennett
Eli Baker
People are indifferent to software freedom politics because they don't know any other way in the first place. In the second place, people are indifferent to software politics because they don't value their freedom to control their own computing. Ignorance doesn't change the fact that Nintendo have a business and political decision to withold the source code to Mario Bros. Political statement here says, "Nintendo is the master of Mario Bros, you are not allowed to change the software". These are the hard facts. The fact that people are ignorant and amoral to these facts does not change the fact of the matter: the owners of proprietary software encourage people to adopt their software which users are not allowed to control.
I'm not trying to force people into thinking that their freedom is important, that's their own decision to choose. What I'm saying is that it is outright false to say that proprietary software is not a political stance and that society's ignorance and amorality to freedom doesn't make it less of a political stance.
Hunter Wright
For some reason I can always tell when you're posting. Are you a Stallmanbot/philosophical zombie? Why do all your posts have the same effete, loathsome, cadence to them -- as if Stallman himself is trying to proselytize me?
Isaac Collins
I don't understand what you're asking or stating here; all I see in your message here is a bunch of buzzwords. If you're trying to say "you remind me of Stallman", I think that's great.
Caleb King
This. The easiest thing to do is just to tar up the source repository and include it somewhere along the binary you send out. That way you don't even have to host the code in a public repo. In the past the size of the source repo might have been an issue, but these days the source code will take up a fraction of what a single Chinese girl cartoon takes up.
Not true, in the past game developers have been known to release the source code at behest of the community.
This too. One hundred years ago a farmer might have said "what do I need to know how to read for, reading won't plough the fields". Lack of computer education is the illiteracy of the 21st century.
Austin Wilson
How is describing your writing style as "effete" a buzzword? Maybe it wasn't you; but there's someone here that only seems to post about "software freedoms" using Stallman approbated phrases like "software that controls the user" -- there's something very robotic about his posts; you'd expect to hear what he says from a cult member inside a rubber room. The problem with F/OSS is that everyone hopes, and in that hope deludes themselves to believe, that because the code COULD have been reviewed by millions of eyes, it magically somehow actually WAS reviewed by millions of eyes. In practice, this could be no further than the truth... in fact, a good half of all lines of code deployed currently have never been read - including by their very author.
Christopher Edwards
It's not, you won't be reading all the code of non-trivial applications to verify they do what they say anyways, and you sure as hell won't be reverse-engineering their binaries.
However, when running business, you should exploit the hell out of it to avoid hiring workers. Don't bother contributing back or donating to people who slaved on it, freetards get very angry if you do.
Gabriel Adams
Because as soon as money is involved, greed becomes involved, and someone on the other side is going to want more and more and more. Paid software, proprietary software, software that isn't free, will always degenerate into farming their users for money in some fashion. They'll do it with advertisements, they'll do it with micro-transactions, they'll spy on users and sell their data. This will ALWAYS happen, like dictatorships degenerating into collapsed nations. Even if you have that one awesome benevolent dictator, eventually he's going to die or leave and you'll get someone else at the helm and that someone else only cares about nigger cocks.
That's why you should use free, open-source software.
Luke Reyes
Never before has pic related been more relevant. You peoples sheer lack of self-awareness is actually kind of shocking
Eli Kelly