On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 16:02 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Things are not always black and white and people juggle with many types of  
> competing priorities. I respect the resolve of those who reject every  
> proprietary program, but life is full of other inconveniences (like finding  
> food and shelter) that sometimes take priority in the life of people I care.

My priorities:

- eight hours a day
- Mon thru Fri
- long term
- enough money to cover living expenses
- won't break my back/injure me
- no cellphone required
- no driving license required
- won't demand that I do anything proprietary on my own devices (unless
it's temporary, to get the job, and it works on my OS)
- if they send something to my personal email, they will comply when I
reject DOCX and ask for PDF
- all computing done on their computers is theirs, not mine
- none of my computing, not even minesweeper or videos during downtime,
or reading articles, or changing the wallpaper, is allowed under any
circumstances
- if anything goes wrong, the software is their responsibility, not mine

They've been met.

> At the same time, I think it is very important for people like RMS and the  
> FSF to be very strict about this. They are the shining light others look  
> toward for direction when it comes to software freedom.

Yes.  Whenever I don't know how to do something privately or with free
software, I ask RMS.

-- 
Caleb Herbert
OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey

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