cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698

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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    1 year ago

    Since you’ve completely ignored my main point, I’ll just repeat it:

    Why is there nonFree software?

    The answer is the profit motive.

    Capitalism is not a side issue. It is the central issue.

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      1 year ago

      While you’ve ignored, or grievously misunderstood, all of my points, I didn’t ignore yours; it just has absolutely no bearing on my position that:

      This article doesn’t necessarily make a statement on whether FOSS is compatible with capitalism.

      …and you haven’t said anything that convincingly disputes that statement; if your very obviously correct point that profitMotive + softwareEngineer == proprietarySoftware was somehow meant to refute it, then I’m failing to see how.

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        1 year ago

        Failing to state their incompatibility is logically identical to stating their compatibility. This is trivial.

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          1 year ago

          Let me make sure I’m understanding:

          If I don’t tell you that I love bananas, then, logically, this means that I hate bananas?

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            1 year ago

            To torture this stupid banana analogy until it’s relevant again, if you spend your entire life working against fascist coups in latin america but you don’t have a problem with the chiquita banana company, your advocacy rings kind of hollow

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              What has that got to do with anything we’ve been talking about? You’re either floundering here and being purposely obtuse, or you’re smoking lead.