[email protected] wrote:
What I want to avoid is giving money to fund proprietary software. Most VPS providers use a proprietary control panel and so far I only know of Corehost which has a policy on free software [...]
Beyond a VPS hoster's claims, how would you know if the software the hoster runs is free? Perhaps a hoster chose a nonfree derivative of a free program and the virtual system control program you use behaves like some free program you're familiar with but might not be free.
If retaining control over your own computing is part of free software ideology, then there could be no way to do your computing with someone else's computer that is compatible with free software ideology. I suppose whether this is a possibility depends on the nature of what's being computed -- something you intend to distribute to all might be okay, but computing with sensitive data would be out.
I believe Richard Stallman has a segment of his most recent talks on "A Free Digital Society" and "Internet Development and Freedom" on this subject. Videos on https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ ought to be informative.
