It's harmful, but it's part of what people give up in order to get the
benefit of whatever the proprietary software does. Just like you get
"free" OTA TV (apologies to our British friends) by having commercials
interjected. You get "free" web applications by having commercials in
the interstices. Just like you have to pay for proprietary software.
Just like you can get proprietary software bundled with a hardware
purchase. All these things are harmful to one degree or another, because
whatever you give up in order to get this software, you could have done
something else with it.
Or you could live with unicorns, rainbows, and rock candy mountains and
only use open source software. Your payment for doing so is giving up
whatever benefits are provided by the proprietary software. There MUST
be benefits, otherwise why would anybody use proprietary software?
Today's lesson in economics is brought to you by the Angry Economist.
On 10/31/23 14:05, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
not *fundamentally* harmful, just harmful :) The OSI is not going
around wagging fingers.
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