>Who care if the kernel, heavily modified and buried 100 layers deep is Open Source if all the apps users actually use are proprietary?
I guess by this definition any open sourced library that an "end user app" uses doesn't count either.
Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video]
by aaronbrethorst on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:33AM
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Given your sense of fatalism about this, I assume you don’t spend your free time building OSS apps for mobile platforms?
I'm not a fatalist, I'm just pointing out a fact. FOSS is far from winning.
FOSS has barely "won" the lower levels of the stack and the highly technical niches. But the more you move towards user-facing applications, the more proprietary things become.
Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video]
by aaronbrethorst on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:47AM
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If you genuinely care about reversing this, then I recommend spending more of your free time building open source apps meant for end user consumption.
You've just proved his point more than you ever wanted.
> checking email
On the (probably) proprietary Mail or Gmail app.
> waiting in line
On the (probably) proprietary app for whichever thing you're staying in line for.
> playing Angry Birds
...
> making a photograph
...
> or checking up on Facebook
...!
Who care if the kernel, heavily modified and buried 100 layers deep is Open Source if all the apps users actually use are proprietary?