Having less proprietary software, means less backdoors, less surveillance, less knowledge barriers, less remote theft of computing resources, etc. It's not perfect, but it's less of the disturbing stuff.
On 4/21/17, John Luke Gibson eaterjolly@gmail.com wrote:
Let's do bear in mind that they do have real reasons for keeping proprietary blobs in their systems. While these reasons do not measure to the ethical concerns, think about this in terms of a much more grossly obvious circumstance: if a barbarian kills two people in bandit raids everyday, and you convince that barbarian to kill one less person each day, then yes they are still killing, but you're not in the end compromising your principles by making the observation that the situation is better and are in no way contradicting those morals by praising the barbarian for being less murderous. Obviously this is a gross comparison but I think it demonstrates a universal principle very well.
On 4/21/17, Stefan Monnier monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
Compromise is a trap and why theres no libre wifi and gpus
Lyberta talked about (and I responded about) "respect", not "compromise" or even "collaborate".
Stefan
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