@Cyrillic @sally @meso >Freedom >Communism Pick one. Free software, in fact, has capitalist nature, one of the most evident being competition. People that develop proprietary software do everything possible to impose their software as the only option for using a personal computer, creating monopolies and eliminating competition. In reality, the communist software is proprietary, as it seeks to restrict the user's freedom and concentrate control in the hands of a few. Claiming that a philosophy which advocates for controlling a computer program is communist is absolute foolishness. P.S.: Even if most GNU operating system distributions come with a version of Linux that includes binary blobs, there are multiple alternatives that do not, which proves that competition still exists. With proprietary software, on the other hand, you have no real choice: you either accept their terms or you don’t use the software.