[Trisquel-users] Re : When is proprietary software bad?

[magicbanana]

Many good points were made. However, in my opinion, one important point is  
missing. Skype is a communication software, communication involves at least  
two users, and Skype can only talk to Skype. Forcing the interlocutor to give  
up her freedoms so that she can talk with you is being a bad member of your  
community.

The whole community is harmed: users of Skype reinforce Microsft's monopoly  
and impede the rest of the group from switching to free software. And the  
problem propagates down to the operating system because, as far as I  
understood, Skype for GNU/Linux is technically much worse than Skype for  
Windows (ethically, both versions are equally abject).