Sure - anyone is capable of doing something bad in the future. But, it is utterly dishonest to claim they are doing it now if you have no evidence.
If it is controlled by corporate interests, it is not free.
No it isn’t. The direction of development is controlled by the need for funding.
I agree that submitting bug reports or patches is an important contribution. I don’t see how that relates to market share, since regular users won’t do that.
It’s not really ‘free’ if it has to produce ad revenue.
For clarification - if you either contribute code or money to Firefox, you are clearly supporting the existence of a free browser. I don’t see how just using it does. So if you aren’t contributing to it you may as well…
> the fact that Twitter is a customer service channel This is circular reasoning. Nowhere is it established that Twitter is a customer service channel. Other parts of your in your first paragraph makes sense, but are…
What makes you think a customer service rep is operating the official Twitter account for a $40+BN company?
> I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing. Why? Are you considering forking Firefox?
When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs. Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28
Perhaps the client is an ‘American Jedi’. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5...
> which makes it difficult to learn how to hack This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s true that you can’t rebuild the kernel or os services, or modify the system very much at all so if that is the kind of hacking…
It has more features, reviews generally indicate improvements, and consumers are choosing it. Anyone claiming that it is getting worse is making an extraordinary claim that needs data to support it.
> When your business partners are world governments, unfortunately mass suffering is the table stakes. You haven’t mentioned any suffering Apple is causing. If you mean to say anyone who does business with a government…
> Working to manage it seems to be the best alternative. Yeah - I tend to agree.
“Incredible human suffering”? This doesn’t seem like a serious comment.
That doesn’t make sense. Saying the FBI should be defunded is explicitly speculating about what hasn’t happened yet.
> it seems to take only the inevitable one or two odd instances of corruption to start the rot that will bring it down This seems to be based on the premise that there could ever be a system that was somehow perfectly…
Apple Maps has traffic jam data. For that matter, my DVD based navigation in my 10 year old car gets real time traffic updates. Neither of them involve using my position data to let ads track me. Additionally nothing…
Sure - anyone is capable of doing something bad in the future. But, it is utterly dishonest to claim they are doing it now if you have no evidence.
If it is controlled by corporate interests, it is not free.
No it isn’t. The direction of development is controlled by the need for funding.
I agree that submitting bug reports or patches is an important contribution. I don’t see how that relates to market share, since regular users won’t do that.
It’s not really ‘free’ if it has to produce ad revenue.
For clarification - if you either contribute code or money to Firefox, you are clearly supporting the existence of a free browser. I don’t see how just using it does. So if you aren’t contributing to it you may as well…
> the fact that Twitter is a customer service channel This is circular reasoning. Nowhere is it established that Twitter is a customer service channel. Other parts of your in your first paragraph makes sense, but are…
What makes you think a customer service rep is operating the official Twitter account for a $40+BN company?
> I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing. Why? Are you considering forking Firefox?
When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs. Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28
Perhaps the client is an ‘American Jedi’. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5...
> which makes it difficult to learn how to hack This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s true that you can’t rebuild the kernel or os services, or modify the system very much at all so if that is the kind of hacking…
It has more features, reviews generally indicate improvements, and consumers are choosing it. Anyone claiming that it is getting worse is making an extraordinary claim that needs data to support it.
> When your business partners are world governments, unfortunately mass suffering is the table stakes. You haven’t mentioned any suffering Apple is causing. If you mean to say anyone who does business with a government…
> Working to manage it seems to be the best alternative. Yeah - I tend to agree.
“Incredible human suffering”? This doesn’t seem like a serious comment.
That doesn’t make sense. Saying the FBI should be defunded is explicitly speculating about what hasn’t happened yet.
> it seems to take only the inevitable one or two odd instances of corruption to start the rot that will bring it down This seems to be based on the premise that there could ever be a system that was somehow perfectly…
Apple Maps has traffic jam data. For that matter, my DVD based navigation in my 10 year old car gets real time traffic updates. Neither of them involve using my position data to let ads track me. Additionally nothing…