Yavor Doganov: > Users who switch to free software for non-philosophical reasons (like > the company I work for, or my uncle) cannot possibly defend the cause > or keep up the community, because they're ready to trade away the > freedoms they have (because, as you say, they don't realize them and > don't value them).
However, in my experience people realize their freedom once they have it. If you are used to lock-in, as a "technological feature" as they sell it, you are not trying to escape it. However, even if you switch to free software for non-philosophical reasons, you later realize what it means; and over time you may understand why your using flash is a problem, both for you and for society. So turning completely-locked-in people to non-completely-free users is still a win for the movement, in my opinion. I myself were looking for a low-cost unix back then, and install this strange "linucs" thing only because it costed nothing. Only later I appreciated what it implied, and I finally understood what rms was saying, even if I've been reading it before. /alessandro _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
