Every time a windows/mac user switches to libre software, Saint iGNUcius (aka GNU/god) smiles. Keep it up.

Glad I use arch btw, pacman manages my python packages so I don’t have to deal with all this mess.

Yet another python packager............... insane that such a popular language still doesn’t have this basic problem solved.

I don’t. No. This isn’t real. He’s lying, surely he’s lying. It’s just a person on the internet making a joke right?

If they were honest, they would call it Unfair Source. 'We get to put bully our users for two years, and then they can have their freedom" - what’s “”“fair”“” about that? Yes, I said bully, because they can put spyware, malware and bad features without anyone being able to redistribute a copy without the mal-features. So either you get bullied, or you wait two years before the software goes open source. But by the time it’s gone open source, the software will most likely be obsolete, because that’s the pace of modern software development. Completely stupid license. If you want to keep your freedom, stick to free software.

At the start I dual booted but after some months I realised everything I could do on Windows I could do on GNU/Linux, only my computer would run faster on the later and actually did what I meant. I tried to battle Windows to configure it how I wanted and it was a real pain in the rear end. My advice is go for the full switch and nuke Windows. I never looked back since.

Why are you stuck on windows? What’s stopping you from installing a GNU/Linux distro? Much easier to replace/customize anything. I don’t mean to suggest y when someone is asking x, rather I don’t see any reason to be using Windows (especially Windows 11) these days.

“Open Source has completely failed to serve the common person. For the most part, if they use us at all they do so through a proprietary software company’s systems, like Apple iOS or Google Android, both of which use Open Source for infrastructure but the apps are mostly proprietary. The common person doesn’t know about Open Source, they don’t know about the freedoms we promote which are increasingly in their interest. Indeed, Open Source is used today to surveil and even oppress them.”
- Open source leader gets redpilled on permissive licenses.

> publishes work under a permissive license which explicitly allows converting it into proprietary software without giving any work back to the original developer.
> Big corporation does just that
> open source guy complains about big corporation and says “FOSS licenses have outlived their purpose”

Duh! That’s why Richard Stallman created the GPL from the start and advocates anyone who wants to further the goal of freedom to use copyleft!

Had everyone used strong copyleft like AGPL or GPLv3+ instead of cuck licenses and the game would be MUCH different with corporations grabing work gratis from open source devs.

This is not an issue with free (as in freedom) software licenses, it is the issue of open source. Open source tries to give freedom to users without ever speaking about freedom, instead marketing the move to open source as a technical advantage. This, as Perens says in the above quote, has not resulted in more freedom for the user. Richard Stallman has been saying for many years that this approach will not work - see the essay “Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software” (can be found in Free Software, Free Society, Selected Essays of Richard M.Stallman and probably on gnu.org).