Hi. On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:57:13PM -0700, Seeker wrote: > > > On 9/29/2015 10:33 AM, Reco wrote: > > > > No, you are wrong here. First, you're trying to introduce a false > dichotomy as if 'proprietary' and 'non-free' are different somehow. > Second, 'non-free' is *always* a bad choice. > > > > "Hear me now, I have seen the light! > They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! > Damn you! > Let the rabbits wear glasses! > Save our brothers!" > Can I get an amen? > > Tool - Disgustipated > > http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tool/disgustipated.html > > Sorry. Couldn't resist. ;-)
:) > I hate binary blobs that are required to get some hardware to work as much > as the next person, but I stop short of saying non-free is *always* a bad > choice. Well, my initial point was that non-free blobs (be it software and firmware) bring suffering, and user of those has to suffer. 'Bad' is merely a simplification of this concept. Since I have a couple of instances of such hardware myself (damn you, Ralink), I can only say that I feel your pain :) > If you think of non-free in terms of Debian non-free, then non-free and > proprietary > can be different things. That gets into a whole different hornets nest. Evaluate here, please. I honestly can not grasp this concept. Reco
