This conversation has devolved into a discussion of an imaginary world based on idealistic assumptions and zero data ... sorry, no point in continuing beyond that point.
On Thu Feb 19 2015 at 3:54:48 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly! Users want to be able to ring up someone and say "Hey, my > computer's > flupped up" or "Can you add this feature?" but proprietary software doesn't > allow this. > They don't want a non-free system that's locked down, they just want a > system > that works and is consumer friendly. Free Software is inherintly > comsumer-friendly, and allows them freedom as well. > And of course, developers don't develop non-free software to do harm > (Mostly) > because they don't think they're doing harm. > You can make a fine profit whilist developing free software! Doom 3 BFG is > a > fair example- the engine is Free Software, but the game assets are > non-free, > which is alright with me- (Note that Trisquel supports free-culture. I > think > free-culture is a nice thing, but it's not something I believe in wholly, > so > I'm alright with non-free art assets and such). > ID Software released the engine for Doom 3 BFG 2 months after the game was > released and- shock- still made a profit! Huh, go figure! > > And users use Free Software without realizing it- I commonly see people > using > VLC, Firefox, etc, so you can't say that they *want* it to be locked down. >
