Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by nightski on Saturday September 28, 2013 @09:25PM
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I don't believe he said that the services themselves are frustrating, but rather the fact that we rely on individual providers (with proprietary implementations) of these services so much.
Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by angersock on Saturday September 28, 2013 @09:50PM
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And my, how these golden handcuffs glitter!
Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by cscurmudgeon on Sunday September 29, 2013 @07:49AM
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False analogy. For the average person, these things add more freedom (freedom to tinker) while removing the freedom to look at the source. For example, most scientists don't care about the latter when it comes to using Matlab.
A honest analogy would be a golden rocket.
How god damned magical is it that not only do all of these things exist but that they are cheap and easy to access. The many, many, many orders of magnitude increase in productivity and possibilities enabled by software in the last 50 years is beyond astounding.
It's not frustrating. It's AMAZING.