• fxdave
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Afaik, Fedora is a free software. I don’t deny that, and I’m a free software fan. I don’t have any problems with fedora besides that it is too heavy for me.

    It looks you also care about your freedom because you use gnu/linux and lemmy. However, it seems you have a different meaning of malware.

    Softwere is a recipe. Any unwanted step is malicious. You can only determine a step as unwanted by seeing its source code.

    Besides this, a softwere can have other functions that are not coming from the code but the license. Similarly they can be malfunctions. For example preventing you from modification.

    So yes, propriatory software is malware. I use some malwares also, because they have no alternatives yet. But let me call them malwares.

    Copyright is the example of capitalism polluting water to be able to sell clean water to people.