-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/2017 11:16 AM, Florian Snow wrote: > Hi, > > > Timothy Pearson <tpear...@raptorengineering.com> writes: >> Giving up privacy and control to waste time in front of a *game*. > > I agree with you that freedom is more important than games. But in the > long run, we need to find other solutions than telling people not to use > things. Phones are bad because they all come with proprietary blobs, so > don't use them. New technology: Often bad, better wait till it's old > and better understood. Online services that you don't host yourself: Bad, > dont' use them. Games: Usually bad, don't use them. I understand that > freedom is important but to most people, giving up games they really > enjoy is also giving up some of their freedom and people who use > services other people host also feel increased freedom because they can > spend their time doing something other than managing a server. So what > I'm saying is that we need to be careful not to tell people we want them > to lead a live of deprivation. > > Happy hacking! > Florian
Yes, I agree. The question is, in a society where any new features / ways of doing things are expected at no cost or well below the real cost of creating things, how does society as a whole move away from the resultant need to "monetise" the resulting products in unethical ways? I guess this is really a variation on the age-old practice of "loss leaders", but taken to such an extreme that it's now expected of every tech product. Combined with 120+ year copyright it's rather hard to come up with a solution other than to just not use the unethical products in the first place, sadly. - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaHwmSAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbmMYH/0RGmRlEXbmENvQ7n5Ow+Gdb niXAwE3GvzK/R1IN6eGRZkpdmtDOmP3YiXNayhbtKz99ZGk6RfaM91LiSLVZqI/E 6lvyaJXpnlAAvs1poQ2hWvl5F8tOO6fEp46DaMREOw/3siSw8gmA1nsCyxIuIJC5 1fRtBjtmeDd3crz6daSDlX6SMdEGpXznGE7WzX/xsv9BLy+/xU6tI5bQyegBS/BS JybDL76mpKLBwA/8CL2i2emDoWaQAfk+Qyxtyn6H7mZRLCWzCSVVaicFV5Knwi9P 0AJQ0vA0SYETAKjifzrHMelwTfwCKrlYpOBNCzORdy2tQ+/s2sKvDIFgW2K/Pfo= =qbG/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
