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Anonymous 9/12/2025, 2:20:59 AM No.106560667 >>106560674 >>106560678 >>106561607 >>106562040

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Is "free (as in freedom) software" what utopian, chronically unemployed people call "open source", or is there any merit to it?

From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html Stallman argues that there can be no good social solidarity and community with open source software, let alone proprietary software. This sounds clueless. I've used lots of closed-source software (mainly on Windows, which itself is no longer trustworthy, but...) and never worried about being abused by particular things I trusted. There is in fact a thing called company/developer reputation.

Anonymous 9/12/2025, 2:22:48 AM No.106560674

>>106560667 (OP)
No merit and no usecase. Socialist pedo slob.

Anonymous 9/12/2025, 2:24:04 AM No.106560678

>>106560667 (OP)
Stallman is a subversive jew

Anonymous 9/12/2025, 4:34:25 AM No.106561375

I suppose if the thing that employed people do is constantly monitor the reputation of all the software they use in perpetuity, then yes—free software is for unemployed people.

Just because you don’t worry about some software doesn’t mean that it’s not harmful. Though I’m sure your MacBook looks really cool in rose gold, I’d like you to share some of the proprietary software you trust

Anonymous 9/12/2025, 5:21:59 AM No.106561607

>>106560667 (OP)
>developer reputation
which developer? which ceo? no one company remained the same. if the code can't be audited then your reputation means nothing.

Anonymous 9/12/2025, 6:52:27 AM No.106562040

>>106560667 (OP)
> no longer
it never was.