Most proprietary peripheral software is under terms that deny all 4 freedoms (some may allow unmodified redistribution, but with restrictions that effectively deny freedom 2).
The installer also installs proprietary software *without asking the user*, even if it *isn't even usable*.
For example, if you install Debian in a VM on an intel CPU, it will go install intel's proprietary software microcode updates, even though VMs can't load those.
Hidden in the documentation, there is a note to pass the flag "firmware=never" to the boot args to disable such antifeature, but an opt-out is not acceptable and it also makes the claim that proprietary peripheral software isn't software, rather it's "firmware" (the only reasonable definition of firmware I've found is socketed ROM chips with microprocessor instructions on them - as you cannot reprogram a ROM chip, but you can physically swap the chips without hardware modification - while software that gets loaded onto a peripheral devices RAM lacks any sort of firmness).
@prettygood >Instead of achieving computing freedom with his hands, he ingested serious amounts of proprietary bug poison and probably took ~6.65 hours (or more) off his life (not including smoking time).
@DoubleD@deprecated_ii She violates the laws of thermodynamics and the square law - there's no way the human circulatory system would work at that size.
You really only want shampoo rarely when your hair is oily - otherwise you want conditioner and only every few days.
An industrial supply of enough conditioner is possible, you'd just need to order a few months in advance.
Most people thing it's just "Linux", it's "open source" and Torvalds wrote the lot with just a bit of work.
Too bad Linux isn't even fully source-available.
A lot of them also have made the error assuming that GNU is just a coreutils and a compiler, when those are only 2 GNU packages; https://gnu.org/software/
If people really knew, they would be writing "systemd", or "GNU" or "LiGNUx".
@lightweight As per the dictionary definition; 1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. [1913 Webster]
You aren't bigoted in the slightest - you've learned many of the consequences of it, but give such companies endless forgiveness, as you even don't consider the chaining of users unethical without the application of say a cattle prod as well.
I don't consider my views to be unquestionably right, but they keep getting proven time and time again.
@Vo@sun@frogzone git is repo management software, it has no concept of licenses.
git hosts should indeed refuse to host a project unless it is validly placed under a free license and license headers have been added to each nontrivial file.
unlicense is a bad license, as the name alone makes many people assume that there is no license and therefore the software is proprietary.
The license also doesn't cover many issues that face software - for example it does not contain a patent license.
If you wish to assist proprietary software companies just as much as you assist freedom, the best license to use is Apache-2.0.
But why do that?
You should rather defend freedom by licensing under the AGPLv3-or-later.