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>Understatement of the year. You are a dev who wants to make some money on the side and keeps her software proprietary because monetizing open-source is a rare exception than the rule? F!@# her and her lack of ethics! And don’t touch her software, or her, with a 10 foot pole, let alone pay for it!

Are you asking for the free software foundation to support proprietary software?


I think that's just the point here: yes, strictly speaking they are, but practically speaking the alternative is to put the user's cybersecurity at risk.

If you ask just about any user, they will say they prioritise their cybersecurity over the purity of their Free Software stack. The FSF seemingly disagree. That disagreement is an important one.


I don't know. You can spin a lot of stuff as cyber security.

Hosting all stuff in cloud does prevent getting locked by some ransom ware.

Plus security isn't an absolute. A determined enough actor could always hack you.


Could you give me a source for "Run over and the reversed". I'd be interested in reading about it.


>the losers go back home

It should be noted that often when wars of independence happen there are still many people who identify with the side of the "losers" whose homes are on the "winners" side, and vice versa.

For example Greek independence did not magically transmit the Turks living in their borders to Turkey, nor did it transfer the Greeks living in Turkey to Greece. What was needed to resolve that situation was ethnic cleansing via the deportation of the populations to their respective countries, in such that a country where they hadn't lived before can be called "theirs".


Where do you live where a beer costs 5€?


Sweden, a beer in a bar is at least 5€


>Very easy if you have an Android phone Very easy if you have an Android phone from the correct manufacturer that and it's popular enough to have custom roms for it or you know how to port custom roms to other devices*


Nope, nowadays any recent-ish Android can receive custom ROM very easily, using GSI.

But the restriction is that many OEMs and/or carriers forbids bootloader unlock.


Not really, Anarcho-Communism, while not Marxist, is communist insofar as it is one of the remaining strains of "Idealistic Communism" as Marx and Engels would call the various worker's movements from before Marx' Scientific Materialism.


Ah, the ol' "No ethical consumption under capitalism so I do not need to care about what I consume" argument. Just because injustice is so widespread in the world does not mean that we do not have the responsibility of our own impact upon the world.


I am not the one who you are asking but, for example, fish breaks shell scripts because it's not POSIX compliant.


Congratulations you made me make an account.

Do you have any sources for that story? I would be interested in reading them because what you are describing sounds so idiotic that it seems like a parody of anti-communist talking points.


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