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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 17:34:28 JST 翠星石
   I can't believe how readily people recommend proprietary software to people to do x task when it's the case that pre-existing free software did x task first.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2023 14:00:18 JST 翠星石

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     • seungjin
     @seungjin First, as in the original and the best.
     
     Free software will always be better than proprietary software, as it respects the users freedoms, even if some functionality is temporarily inconvenient to use.
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     seungjin (seungjin@mstd.seungjin.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2023 14:00:19 JST seungjin

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     @Suiseiseki 'first'? not 'better' or 'equally'?

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     seungjin (seungjin@mstd.seungjin.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2023 14:15:30 JST seungjin

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     @Suiseiseki "always better" but "temporarily inconvenient"?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2023 14:15:30 JST 翠星石

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     • seungjin
     @seungjin Yes, it's sometimes the case that free software is sometimes less convenient functionality wise than proprietary malware.
     
     In every case I've seen, that inconvenience has always been temporary, as the free software community eventually ends up fixing any functionality shortcomings and the software becomes better than proprietary malware functionally wise as well.
     
     
     Freedom is always better than convenient slavery.