Open source your software

>i'm a fucking poorfag gimme yo stuff
Fuck off, poorfag.

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>Freedom isn't a function of what you can do to the tools you have, but rather of what you can do WITH the tools you have. Hence, Linux is LESS free than Windows, because Windows can accomplish MORE than Linux can.
>(emphasis added)
That's some serious stuff, user. I've never thought of it that way. I now hate freetards even more than I did 30 seconds ago.

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How can I make money from my software if it's open source?

From what I understand, selling support contracts - and simultaneously hoping your users never find Google.

Search RHT in google.

>because Windows can accomplish more than Linux can
it catagorically cannot.
>Freedom isn't a function of what you can do to the tools you have, but rather of what you can do WITH the tools you have
if you understand a wrench well, you cannot just do a lot with it, but you can think of ways to change it to do more with it. TO and WITH have a positive feedback loop with eachother. with windows you aren't even given the decency to know what your shit is doing. 'Listen and believe, trust the invisible hand, don't question it, don't listen to those freetards'. 'we know better' the microsoft shill yells atop their insurmountable god damn MOUNTAIN of ignorance.

>Linux is less free than Windows, because Windows can accomplish more than Linux can.
But it can't.

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thanks

Then why are you demanding our source code?

Yes, we all know the real reason is that your Open Sores shit is buggy crap that barely works, and you want to rip off working software instead of just the look of it (see Android, most of your window managers, etc).

Let's see if you can come up with a plausible reason other than the above.

>Then why are you demanding our source code?
Yours? It isn't yours, Pajeet. I'm not demanding anything from you.
>Yes, we all know the real reason is that your Open Sores shit is buggy crap that barely works
That must be why the majority of servers run Linux.

>That must be why the majority of servers run Linux.
Yet host endless amounts of (C) All Rights Reserved content.

The only reason it runs on (the slimmest) majority of them is that it's free (as in beer). Nobody in the real world cares about your philosophy.

But hey, keep up the autistic screeching. It's quite funny to those of us who actually have the skills to get paid.

>The only reason it runs on (the slimmest) majority of them is that it's free (as in beer).
What is the alternative, exactly?

The OS (and software ecosystems) you want open sourced - despite them being inferior, incapable, crappy, etc.

Do you guys actually listen to yourselves when you make your "arguments"? Do you ever consider that the mental contortions and hypocrisies you spew forth might actually be the reason that nobody takes you seriously, and mocks you every time you open your mouths?

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You're going to run Windows on a server?

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>The only reason it runs on (the slimmest) majority of them is that it's free (as in beer). Nobody in the real world cares about your philosophy.
>implying there's anything wrong with this
The fact that open source software as a philosophy has a practical use even to those who don't care just shows how useful it is. Easily accessed, free, functional software is a GOOD thing, don't try to make it sound like people are worse for not needing to pay for server operating systems.

>why is your software closed source?
Because I am not ought to give out all secrets of how I do it same as I am not obliged to record process of producing any good on video.

Who said anything about me shilling for shintel? Fuck that company.

I'm saying you should pay for the software you use you freeloading goldbricking piece of shit commie faggot. I hope you get shot getting your welfare check.

Sell builds to people who are too lazy to do it themselves

Because copyrights and patents are a thing.
Destroy those and i will gladly open source everything.

I just don't want to be locked out of my own shit.

that's why the GPL exists

Because I run a SaaS company and would like to earn a living.

Most servers run Windows.

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Most people are retards, that isn't surprising. There are no benefits to running a windows server, only downsides.

Yeah, the entire industry consensus is wrong. Some random anonymous dude on an online Tibetan mortar mixing imageboard is right, against all odds.

If it was open source scammers would build their own versions of it and stick in crypto miners and spyware or some shit into it.

keyword that makes that graphic stupid: ON-PREMISE
Companies who use on-premise servers are really small and dont know better and cant hire a dedicated sysadmin. So, saying "most servers" is wrong. Look at every server on the internet (i.e. """cloud""" and DC based) and you'll see Linux dominates by a landslide

>only downsides
so being easy to config and maintain server for small/mid business is bad?

I don't know why people always shout communism at free software.
Free software actually works and has created an incredible user experience, whereas communism usually doesnt.

Because the only thing that's going to happen is a bunch of pajeets and pavels will stick a lot of ads on my work it and make tons of money. I won't gain anything, my users won't gain anything, but maybe some neckbeard in some basement somewhere will tip his fedora at me through the screen for respecting his freedum

>youre too stupid to have rights

>Free software actually works
Not really, no. You can't think of many truly successful, widespread open sores projects, but you can easily name thousands of paramount proprietary software.
>and has created an incredible user experience
Like GIMP? Like LibreOffice? Please, this must be a joke. The one thing free software has always consistently failed at creating is a barely decent user experience.

I can't tell if you're retarded or just pretending.

The GPL relies on copyrights to work, you dumbass.

blender's pretty good

And copyrights exists so you aren't locked out of your work while still being able to do open source, you retard.

>come up with genius idea for web service
>it's next snapchat or some shit
>open source it
>someone forks it and it gets more popular than yours
>you go back to your sysadmin job

That's not why copyrights exist. They exist for Disney's sake, not yours or mine.

t. Thomas Edison

openssh, tmux, ffmpeg, webkit, firefox, vlc, vim, emacs

RMS and Open Source is unrelated.
RMS does Free Software.

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I use free software exclusively, but I do think about this problem sometimes. Late is probably better than never in this case. As in, make it FOSS later on.

100% of my code is released under Unlicense.

>but you can easily name thousands of paramount proprietary software.
Even ignoring your hyperbole, I do not agree with this. The stuff people bring up time and time again is Photoshop, some sort of CAD software, a video editor, and music production software. Leaving the specifics, people will complain about video games in general.

When I think of successful software, I do first think of free software. The stuff that is successful because it's free. The stuff that doesn't have a GUI, but is instead a part of many other programs. Solid bases for everyone to build on. This is where free software shines. There's stuff like Blender, yeah, but I don't really think that's the first thing you should think of for successful free software. If I were to change my thought process to purposefully think of successful proprietary software, I guess mobile apps come to mind first. Stuff like Snapchat. I don't know if this is really equivalent since they're more services than anything. Facebook is successful and proprietary, but it's largely a website.

Anyway, let's hear your list. It doesn't have to be long, but maybe a top 5 or top 10 of successful proprietary software. Don't worry about statistics. Just whatever off the top of your head.

> cuck license
Why do you support propriety software?

I write code for my own purposes. I don't care what other people do with it. No matter what they do with it, it will continue to serve the purpose for which I created it. I have no interest in selling software. I'm not going to force people to hand over modifications because I'm not a fucking commie.

You don't care when a company comes along and improves its restrictive botnet with your code?

welcome to bsd

Why should I care? My code does what I wanted it to do, and what they've done doesn't affect my usage of my code in any way.

Open Source is not enough, it needs to be Free as in Freedom, allowing people to use, modify, share and share modifications as they wish.

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Preach those four freedoms. You should free your software and stop oppressing your users.

Because you don't want to be the cause of better surveillance of and control over user? Free software needs to be protected so it will stay free and will not be used in nonfree form against the user.

>Why should I care about other people

Nigga I ain't using botnet shit, and stupid fucking normies aren't my responsibility. And if you're worried about the government, they don't give a shit about your license anyway and you're never going to know they're using your code.

So again, I see no reason to give a shit.

Photoshop
Sketch
Affinity Designer
Illustrator
Cinema4D
After Effects
Clip Studio Paint
FL Studio
Ableton Live
Reason
Cubase
Logic Pro
Protools
Sony Vegas
Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro
Visual Studio
Unity
95% of all videogames
95% of all in-house/corporate software
Flash (Animate)
ToonBoom
3ds Max
Maya
Zbrush
MS Office
AutoCAD
SketchUp

Things that are FOSS are usually:

Simple programs that are trivial to implement and couldn't realistically be sold for profit
Libraries where it makes sense to publish the source code (e.g., cryptography)
Compilers, languages and programming tools that benefit more from collaborative development than competition
Previously proprietary things that were released as free or open source after the company made a profit with them (Unreal, Google, Pixar, Microsoft, etc.)
Software that's the only real alternative in its field, sponsored and developed by thousands of corporations (Linux, gcc, etc.)
Desktop applications based on existing libraries that aren't too shit, so people use them (VLC, LibreOffice, etc.)

>download qubes os
>kill everything but vm features
>install awesomewm
>install gentoo kernel and portage
>use appvm on gentoo
>gpu passthrough

>the company can't improve its restrictive botnet with my code
>it copies my work or uses one of the other alternatives instead
>the botnet is now only 99.8% as restrictive, and took two weeks longer to implement

Whew, thank God for software licenses.

I have no idea what you're trying to do.

It would run all those applications sandboxed and securely on linux equally as fast as windows would run them.

At that point, you might as well just set up a separate machine and run Windows on it. Get one of those ultrawide monitors and share your cursor/clipboard between the two screens, way easier.

>why is your software closed source?

money you stupid prick

>The OS (and software ecosystems) you want open sourced
Who is "you" exactly? I don't want Microsoft source code for any of their software. I don't use any of it to begin with.

> hiding cp in your code
Why though

>Why should I care?
Because you're not actually the edgy sociopathic teenager you're trying to larp as right now.

GPL is used on Chinese botnets. Be subtler next time, Zhang.

>oppressing
Yeah, oppressing them with useful features like filepicker thumbnails...

>le cuck license meem
Gee, I wonder who could be behind this post!

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>openssh, tmux, ffmpeg, vim, emacs
Literally what.
>webkit, firefox, vlc
So the best you could come up with was three barely known pieces of sub-par software? Nice.

>openssh
>"literally what"
Aaaand there goes what little credibility you had left. Time to try to play it off like you were just pretending the whole time. Meanwhile, I'm gonna post some anime grills.

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>freetard is a weeb
Why am I not surprised?

(You)

What on earth makes you think I'm a freetard? Nice new IP, btw.

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You can pay for foss. Freedom is as libre not gratis. Aka free speech not free beer.

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>"you can pay for foss"
>Open Source Security, Inc sells security patches for Linux known as grsec
>"WAAAAHHH MUH GPL VIOLATIONS"
Keep up the farce, freetard.

Why not? people even put that stuff in blockchain.
Software must be freed if we want our children to be safe.

Open source, by its very definition, recognizes not just the existence, but the legitimacy of proprietary code and software. Not to mention corporations support open source initiatives in order to steal their code. Open source is anti-socialist and anti-anarchist.

With a VM you have the option of keeping a clean image to instantly load or restore when you fuck stuff up, though.

ffmpeg is what every major video player uses

I have no problem with that as long as its libre.

How can anything be private if you intend to distribute thousands of copies?

Because you're not distributing source code, only object code.

Or maybe it's cheaper and safer to use a server OS that anyone can maintain rather than handle your stuff to an autistic sysadmin.

yes

He's referring to the FSF "approved distros".
I also agree that you should be able to run any program on your OS, whether it's proprietary, Open source or FOSS.

Patreon or similar services.

>All that bloated shitware in the top list

meanwhile, FOSS has many options that dont hog all your ram so that you can do more than one thing at a time. Not all, obviously, but some is more than none.

cursed image if i've ever seen one