Having less proprietary software, means less backdoors, less surveillance, less knowledge barriers, less remote theft of computing resources, etc. It's not perfect, but it's less of the disturbing stuff.
On 4/21/17, John Luke Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's do bear in mind that they do have real reasons for keeping > proprietary blobs in their systems. While these reasons do not measure > to the ethical concerns, think about this in terms of a much more > grossly obvious circumstance: if a barbarian kills two people in > bandit raids everyday, and you convince that barbarian to kill one > less person each day, then yes they are still killing, but you're not > in the end compromising your principles by making the observation that > the situation is better and are in no way contradicting those morals > by praising the barbarian for being less murderous. Obviously this is > a gross comparison but I think it demonstrates a universal principle > very well. > > On 4/21/17, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Compromise is a trap and why theres no libre wifi and gpus >> >> Lyberta talked about (and I responded about) "respect", >> not "compromise" or even "collaborate". >> >> >> Stefan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] >> http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >> Send large attachments to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
