Notices by Kai Evans (kaievans@fosstodon.org)

@lxo yeah, right. While you're busy still fapping on supercomputers like it's 1999, proprietary software runs on billions of devices and powers the bulk of the economy

And don't give the whole Linux everyone nonsense.

@lxo yes, blindfolded and with a dildo in my butt, lol

You know that mastodon and underlying rails are not GNU GPL, right? What about the smartphone software that runs in your pocket, is that even OSS? Are you using them blindfolded and with a dildo in your butt?

Do you even hear how moronic you free software folks sound? " Hat damn' I like my Emacs, and everyone who wants different just hates our freedoms!"

@lxo I actually believe that both FOSS and proprietary software licensing, do essentially the same thing. They cock block each other from their software being used by the other group. Both of the sides are assholes who only care about themselves

if you truly want to contribute to the society, you should permissively license you code and let anyone "steal" it. It doesn't matter if somebody makes money of it or not, well unless you're just being an envious shmuck about it, that is

@lxo Ill try this one time okay. just for the kicks of it.

just go and eyeball the number of success stories between FOSS, permissive OSS, and proprietary OSS projects

don't listen to me, look to the numbers. do you still think that production of the most useful software that advances the "civilisation" as you said, is a function of FOSS licensing?

@lxo im sorry Alexandre, but what you're saying is basically a self justifying lunacy that has zero evidence in reality

as I said to the other guy, RMS is a false prophet. the kind of freedom you're talking about is a lunacy that only cares about the engineering side of the equation. RMS basically had daddy issues in his youth, and you follow his path blindly like lemmings

@lxo and that goes back to the main problem with gnu/foss philosophy, it's focus on software.

It's a great approach to produce tech, like Linux kernel for example, but it consistently failing to produce great products. Because great products involve much more than just software

@Suiseiseki no, sorry to disappoint, I zone out when I see stupidity very quickly

@Suiseiseki do you seriously expect me to read that long of an argument?

@nicemicro I wouldn't actually mind me some proprietary software on Linux. Well, as long as it's containerised property and can't snoop around the system too much.

I think it's the lack of commerce in Linux ecosystem that is keeping the OS back from mass adoption and becoming a norm.

Android is a good example of how powerful could be

@nicemicro maybe so, but FOSS is also useless at replicating a lot of proprietary software. It's been 20 years, and I have my doubts it will ever happen.

the way I see it, solving the security problem is more approachable by FOSS community, than solving the lack of commercial grade software

@colinsmatt11 @nicemicro sure thing, were not talking tautology here though. I'm talking simply about availability of commercial software options

FOSS doesn't even have a decent email/calendar client, let alone any specialised software for media production. Fuck it wouldn't even have a decent code editor if it's not for vs code ;)

And it will never have those because all FOSS cares about is software aka programming. And there is much more involved in making a great product that that