Proprietary Software Is Often Malware

Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by easton on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:21PM (#26005320)

Based on that definition, GNU Emacs is malware as whenever I see it on my system (it used to be included with several Linux distros and macOS), I cringe at the thought of all of disk space I could be filling with fortune files.

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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by crazypython on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:26PM (#26005388)

I would modify the definition to this:

> Software whose functioning intentionally mistreats the user is called malware

There is nothing stopping you from removing GNU Emacs. There are features missing in Roam Research. But in Emacs org-roam, if you are missing a feature, you can ask any programmer– they don't have to be an org-roam maintainer– to add a feature as it is free software. Roam intentionally takes away the freedom to modify the software.

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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by hundchenkatze on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:27PM (#26005401)

I get your point, but I think in this case the distro would be the malware not emacs.

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