Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
by hrktb on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:36PM
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This was the impression we had 20 years ago looking at RMS talking.
It felt like a cult, we felt he asked to us make completely unpractical sacrifices purely in the name of an ideology, the Free.
In hindsight he might have been right, but there clearly was a communication problem, and our kneejerk reaction was to take distance from anything that looked like a cult.
That’s still how people react when they’re just told Apple is evil and they should give up their iPhone for some open source hardware phone or they’re sheeples.
It felt like a cult, we felt he asked to us make completely unpractical sacrifices purely in the name of an ideology, the Free.
In hindsight he might have been right, but there clearly was a communication problem, and our kneejerk reaction was to take distance from anything that looked like a cult.
That’s still how people react when they’re just told Apple is evil and they should give up their iPhone for some open source hardware phone or they’re sheeples.