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  • People are aware of Apple constantly and it’s extremely hard to forget about them; the ads are made to incentivize you to buy them. This post does not do that. Would an article about AOL’s discbombing marketing strategy released during that time be an ad? Just making people know these exist doesn’t incentivize anyone except fanatics; to incentivize them you need to tell people about the features, not the expensive freaking price.








  • macOS is based off FreeBSD, which is completely free. Not sure what you mean here. I don’t really see much documentation that shows GNU made Linus use GPL or not. You can’t assert that.

    Being dedicated to software freedom doesn’t exclude you from being idealistic. They propose solutions that would require good sacrifices that many greedy people simply won’t follow. If you really think the status quo is “idealistic” then you don’t know what that word means. Computer science is already very much in the public consciousness and corporations have already been exposed, but they still operate. It’s idealistic to think they would sacrifice their greed. Despite how much software the FSF have funded, they’re still unable to attack.

    Linux is a practical response to non-freedom. “sell out”, “liberated”, “changed his license” is all just word choice. There is still a long gap between open-source and proprietary. Nobody should co-opt words, including that “open-source” shouldn’t be redefined to libre software. You can argue that any promotional stuff, including FSF, is propaganda being blasted to you 24/7. Yes, these are very awful, but we need workable alternatives that can do many of the same stuff to switch to before we can rejoin freedom.



  • We do in fact not have much control over non-free software especially when they have a monopoly and exclusive features.

    There is a(n) (unofficial) version of Linux that strips away all the non-free blobs. So we do have a completely free OS. Not to mention BSD.

    We get market share by being more free, not by making ruinous compromises.

    Tell that to Windows.




    1. Kbin and Lemmy are two of the most liberal hosting software. It’s slightly literal in this specific instance which is literally Lemmy.Marxist-Leninist. While implementations of that ideology often aren’t liberal the ideology itself is. Post such stuff on 𝕏 if you want people who might actually “help” you.
    2. Pologyny is a crime in the US. Just that a man is really attractive doesn’t mean they engage in such activity. Such men also have personality characteristics that prevent them from doing “serial monogamy”. In the case of Johnny Carson, having 4 wives over 56 years isn’t “serial monogamy” either.
    3. You don’t need to have sex to have children. You can always adopt.