It's incoherent rambling. Extremism.
You do know who RMS is, yes?
His overriding concern as an ongoing basis is that people should have the freedom to tinker with software - to be able to read, improve, share the programs we are running.
He's not arguing that you're falling into a personal, small scale 'trap' like you will get your finger stuck or something, but that whole groups of people who care may not have noticed this set of events sneaking past them.
Or that this is yet another area where we should care, but don't, and that should change so that if you do care, you can do something about it.
No end users care.
That maybe true, but it shouldn't be true.
I think the majority just care if something solves their problem, rather than if its open source or not.
Exactly the problem - this week I saw an end user called us up asking us to help get some information out of a program they run. Luckily, it runs on a popular database backend. Unluckily, it's proprietary closed source software and there is no documentation of what the database tables and fields mean or how they are used.
They bought it because it "solved their problem". Now that lead to other problems. Problems which are both completely predictable (information stuck in artificially limited proprietary system) and avoidable (use artificial-limitation-free documented open system).
And on a more general level, promote the use of such across the entire computing industry so such programs become available.
His overriding concern as an ongoing basis is that people should have the freedom to tinker with software - to be able to read, improve, share the programs we are running.
He's not arguing that you're falling into a personal, small scale 'trap' like you will get your finger stuck or something, but that whole groups of people who care may not have noticed this set of events sneaking past them.
Or that this is yet another area where we should care, but don't, and that should change so that if you do care, you can do something about it.
No end users care.
That maybe true, but it shouldn't be true.
I think the majority just care if something solves their problem, rather than if its open source or not.
Exactly the problem - this week I saw an end user called us up asking us to help get some information out of a program they run. Luckily, it runs on a popular database backend. Unluckily, it's proprietary closed source software and there is no documentation of what the database tables and fields mean or how they are used.
They bought it because it "solved their problem". Now that lead to other problems. Problems which are both completely predictable (information stuck in artificially limited proprietary system) and avoidable (use artificial-limitation-free documented open system).
And on a more general level, promote the use of such across the entire computing industry so such programs become available.