On 12 December 2011 10:09, Jon Spriggs <j...@sprig.gs> wrote: > (I'd have credited this comment, but I've not seen it in my mail > stream aside from in someone else's reply, and I don't know who said > it, as that person cropped the originators name out!) >> What does "FaiF" stand for, if we are to get anywhere with promotion we >> need to use PLAIN ENGLISH its fine putting in acronyms as long as they are >> explained for example > > FaiF was the name of Bradley's podcast (hence, he may not have seen > the need to explain it, as it will be clearly documented elsewhere on > his site) and stands for "Free as in Freedom", referring to the > complications around the word "Free" in the English language where > Free could refer to Free of Cost or Freedom, meaning, he is interested > in the Freedom aspect of the word Free.
I will be honest here, I feel that what this person is saying is a teensy bit hypocritical. He is probably sitting on a PC that is, electronically speaking, more proprietary than the software he's using. You can't just expect people not to use proprietary software because it's not "free", that's like going to a restaurant and demanding the chef explain exactly how his meal was made and then never going back because he refused due to it being a "secret recipe". I understand that that analogy is a pretty poor one, and this has been debated to no end for years, but I can't help but feel someone like that is just closed minded. These companies have to make money, and if there is a free alternative then yes, by all means use it, but on the flip side, there's no point demanding other people move away from what they like. People use Facebook, G+, etc... because they like them, not because they are tied in with a contract. I think if they didn't like it they may well move to another platform, and that platform may well be FLOSS. Again, this is just my opinion, I did TL;DR the article because I'm at work, but at the end of the day, nobody is free from proprietary software (See what I did there?) and on the other side of it, everyone at some point will use FLOSS software, to some extent. -- Regards, Kris Douglas. www.krisd.eu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
