Dnia sobota, 18 maja 2013 o 00:03:41 Manuel Palomo Duarte napisał(a): > As I understand the interest of Linux.com (ergo Linux Foundation) is > promoting Linux in all its applications and uses. Of course, preferring > those related to freedom, but linux is just linux
I strongly disagree with that. Free software has strong ethical values enshrined, it's not just Yet Another Engineering Paradigm. Personal freedom is crucial, and any use of free software to curtail such freedom should in my book be shunned upon. If it's not, what's the actual virtue of using GNU/Linux? Why use GNU/Linux, if it offers no real advantage (freedom-wise) compared to closed OSes? There are many levels on which users are being closed in walled gardens and spied upon. Protection of privacy is a crucial issue of our time, and while I agree that Linux.com doesn't have to actively fight to defend privacy, some sensitivity about the issue should be IMHO visible in what is published there. Promoting Google, one of the largest IT companies and most one of the most dangerous to privacy, shows that such sensitivity is lacking there. Which is a pity. Google doesn't need our promotion, it can (and does) promote itself pretty well. Rather than Google, why don't we promote more libre and privacy-aware companies, like Jolla Mobile? -- Pozdrawiam Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
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