On a scale of Microsoft to Richard Stallman, how serious are you about the whole software and hardware freedom thing? Pic related, although it's definitely not the end of the scale I'm on.
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Angel Baker
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Connor Anderson
I think it's pretty important and will become more important. I don't enjoy microsoft crap but still rely on it for some things (video gamez) and the occasional C# or VB program I have to debug...
Do most real work / dev on *nix or mac - not 100% that all uses *free* software in terms of FSF / stallman but it's closer.
And think more and more freedom respecting software will be becoming more and more important.
>Free software developers guarantee >everyone
>equal rights to their programs; any user can >study the source code, modify it, and share >the program. By contrast, most software >carries fine print that denies users these >basic rights, leaving them susceptible to the >whims of its owners and vulnerable to >surveillance.
imo Having to learn proprietary closed source software is annoying and short sighted.
Zachary Harris
I prefer to use free software wherever possible, however I am not opposed to using nonfree software. I am opposed to paying for (or watching ads in support for) nonfree software.
Jordan Edwards
I used to care less, but as I've put in more years as a programmer I've moved closer to stallman. I've built so many variations of things you _know_ are solved already. It makes me sad that most of that work will never see the light of day, and it doesn't make much sense either. Almost none of code was company secret tier. I want the standard to be open source, with closed source being the odd one.
Sebastian Price
Actually it is called "Linux/GNU".
Carter James
My first concern is how arrogant the software is. I tolerate iOS even though it gets on my nerves sometimes. I use it on my device because >muh family and also >muh phone number
If software is arrogant like Windows 10, my next course of action is to determine if I can make it tolerable and somewhat privacy respecting. If the answer is no I don’t use it.
On my personal laptops and desktops I go out of my way to make them as libre as possible, if possible. I don’t care much about proprietary shit in the kernel since none of it is used on a librebooted machine with a libre internet card, so I’ll use distros like Void or Alpine over Trisquel or Parabola for other reasons.
However if not libre-compatible at the hardware level (not libreboot compatible) then I’m not opposed to using stripped-down Win7 or 8.1 since the libre-virginity is already lost.
I always prefer the freedom-respecting option and feel it needs to be supported but recognize my personal usage of it or not is entirely personal and does not change the future of free software.
Jonathan Murphy
I stick with free software as long as it's not massively inconvenient for me to do so.
e.g. my laptop requires a nonfree wireless driver in order to have internet.
Jordan Bailey
Most of the time, libre software is better than nonlibre for the things I need to do. Almost every instance where this is not the case it's because of vendor lockdown or tivoization or some other faggotry. 9 times out of 10, proprietary shit is bloated, buggy, and non-customizable. This includes Windows and MacOS, both of which I've used extensively and found to be pretty unstable when it comes to dev work (on windows you get the classic BSODs, on Mac you get shit like non kill -9 -able processes and package installer freezes that fuck your system over). Whereas Linux literally just works. I've never seen the same kinds of retarded bugs in libre software that I've seen in proprietary shit.
That said, the unfortunate reality is that we have to live with buggy bloated shit that we can't get rid of unless we go full autism with a Memepad or something. I don't necessarily agree with everything Stallman stands for, especially since he tends to be an abrasive asshole, but when I have a choice, I choose the software that works, and that overwhelmingly tends to be free software.
Ian Campbell
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Alexander Moore
I always use free software if I can sometimes for example at work that isn't possible but I more or less always make my code open source