Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.

[jason]

Says the person with the Mac. On a more serious note, may I ask who you are  
to to decide who "benefits" from making a program free? Making a free program  
is a contribution to society so everyone in society benefits. Making a  
program proprietary is the exact opposite -- an attack on society. The  
proprietary software developers has directly attacked them by keeping the  
users of the program divided and helpless, subjugating them to their new  
master. They're divided because they're forbidden to share, they're helpless  
because they can't even tell what the program is doing to them (and some do  
nasty things to people like come with Digital Restrictions Management and  
other issues) and they're subjugated because they can no longer decide what  
their computer's doing. Only the developer can, and if they want to change  
some aspect of it they have to go and pray to the developer, "Oh please  
almighty developer -- Please make this change." Maybe the developer will,  
maybe they won't. Either way just by virtue of having to *ask*, the situation  
has now changed from them having control over what their computer does to  
someone else having it instead.