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Originally Posted by taosaur
...in practice they're irrelevant.
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At this point in time. Until Amazon and/or Adobe come up with a new DRM-scheme and start to use it for all books sold as of a certain date.
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Originally Posted by FacebookVirus
Please remember to close your /stallman.
While I have some degree of respect for him, and GNU, and open source in general, a totalitarian stance weakens it. Proprietary tools are there for those who choose to use them, as they should be.
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Well said.
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While I use a lot of open source software, I do use some closed source software, as there simply is no open source alternative (or not good enough), and nobody has any intentions of making one.
Stallman's stance "all software should be free, and all non-free software should be eradicated" is just idiotic. Some software CAN'T be free. A company is not going to spend hundreds of thousands, millions, or maybe even tens of millions to create software, and then give it all away for free.
The only thing I vehemently boycot is activation or subscription services. I want to be able to run a piece of software until 2078 if I'm still alive and have some way of running it, on a 50-year old computer or in an emulator.
The only software I still use that has an activation is Windows 7, and the only reason I do so is because I have no other choice to run Windows software and games. (No, WINE in Linux does not cut it.)
When Windows 7 will drop out of support in 2020, I'll be doing a clean and fully updated install on this computer and its successor, and then I'll make an image, so I can "re-install" without having to reactive. Then again, all of my software (still) runs on Windows 8.1 as well, as far as I've been able to test. Also, I expect parts such as ATX-compatible power supplies and SATA-hard disks to be around for a long time to come. Hell; I can even find stuff like Fast Page and EDO RAM if I need to.