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We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less (ploum.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

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[–] wargreymon 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are wrong at so many levels.

If you were to pirate something, not only it doesn't work all the time, doesn't scale to large corporations, the large corps control you.

The whole point of this is to gain full control, meaning legally, of what we think should be free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

it doesn’t work all the time

Neither FOSS. There are excellent programs in open source, but many are in some ways much inferior when compared to the cummercial. First example from head: many printers and other devices have drivers only for window$

doesn’t scale to large corporations

i consider pirating software for private use

the large corps control you

They are spying using regular software too

The whole point of this is to gain full control, meaning legally, of what we think should be free.

Why should we bother by unjust capitalist law? Today I shared with my students pirated books which would cost shitton of money in Poland. This should be free for education. But the law forbids it so fuck the law