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Free software is our best bet, but our attention still needed

Free software is our best bet, but our attention still needed

Posted Sep 23, 2009 13:10 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: KDE's Project Silk by sebas
Parent article: KDE's Project Silk

Free software is like democracy. Sometimes people elect dangerous idiots.

In free software projects, if the users don't clearly value freedom, then companies add non-free plugins, non-free dependencies, and non-free websites to the free software systems.

I have the source and the freedom, but I don't have the time to reprogram my desktop. I have to rely on the users in general signalling to the developers that anti-privacy features and non-free dependencies are not what we want. This is worlds better than the situation of a user of proprietary software user, but it does take some daily effort.


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