Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
by SilasX on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:16PM
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Stallman may have been right about the dangers, but he was also a key impetus behind moving everything behind online APIs — the harder it is to keep stuff closed source (legally and socially) the more services will switch to an online-only model, which then can optimize for frequent updates.
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Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:39PM
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Wait. Not sure if I understand you correctly here. As far as I can tell, keeping stuff closed source is one of the biggest reasons people like SaaS model (you can't even in principle have Stallman-style free software in SaaS model), another big reason being full control over access and user data. I'm not sure how he was a key impetus behind that - in fact, all of his teachings were strongly against this, but people ignored it and now here we are.
Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
by jacoblambda on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:23PM
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I believe the insinuation is that GNU, GPL, and FOSS forces the hands of many organisations that would traditionally release closed source software. Additionally it proposes that if it is not open source, an open source alternative will quickly begin competing with it.