cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698

Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    While you’ve ignored, or grievously misunderstood, all of my points, I didn’t ignore yours; it just has absolutely no bearing on my position that:

    This article doesn’t necessarily make a statement on whether FOSS is compatible with capitalism.

    …and you haven’t said anything that convincingly disputes that statement; if your very obviously correct point that profitMotive + softwareEngineer == proprietarySoftware was somehow meant to refute it, then I’m failing to see how.

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      -21 year ago

      Failing to state their incompatibility is logically identical to stating their compatibility. This is trivial.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Let me make sure I’m understanding:

        If I don’t tell you that I love bananas, then, logically, this means that I hate bananas?