free markets werent such a bad idea at first but i think theyve run their course
the idea that a corporation make the end user pay for a product but then place in their terms of agreement that said corporation is the real owner is actually evil
the end user should be the absolute sovereign owner
also closed source is bad and gross open source is good
What are you rambling on about now, you flaming homosexual?
A rant about physical products are now licensed rather than outright bought.
Something akin to the original intention of Xbox one during unveiling
stocking Stallman is right
There’s a reason commercial software is so successful when FOSS is just sitting right there in competition.
You want what you need, not the minimum of what some bored sysadmin in Oklahoma can code in his spare time. Having to actually sell the stuff provides funds to hire developers and keeps the project from going too off-the-rails.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t alternative ways to arrange software development, just that “boo, closed source!” isn’t very clueful on the intersection of economics and software development.
