My question is, how have you kept yourselves on the right track this entire
time, and is there any way that I can easily convince my friends to atleast
try to not use Micro$oft Windows and proprietary software?
Whenever I had strange urges in the past I thought about the great beauty of
Well, to tell you the truth, things are really mixed around here.
The process of convincing people to use free software involves, as far as I
know, knowledge about the person you're trying to convince.
Generally speaking, I always tell others the difference between the terms
gratis, open
Not all free software is open source. As an example, the original BSD license
is discouraged by the FSF, but it is approved as a free software license.
That same license is not approved as an open source license by the OSI.
It is true that most open source and free software licenses overlap,
Hello Everyone;
My name is DeckardCain and I am a software developer. I began using free
software when I began writing optimization patches for the Bukkit MineCrat
server mod, which then led me to the GNU GPL (which I have used countless
number of programs before that used the same), which
First of all, welcome, and good on you for helping program free software.
My question is, how have you kept yourselves on the right track this
entire time, and is there any way that I can easily convince my
friends to atleast try to not use Micro$oft Windows and proprietary
software?
Hmm,
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 02:31 +0200, dev.deckardc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Everyone;
My name is DeckardCain and I am a software developer. I began using free
software when I began writing optimization patches for the Bukkit MineCrat
server mod, which then led me to the GNU GPL (which I
I have a similar story as to why I started using only free software. I also
have many friends who are big consumers of proprietary non-free programs. One
of my friends uses just about every service that Microsoft owns, whether it's
Dropbox, Skype, WMA Lossless, or even Windows 8 for the
(They always say things like It may spy on me, but there are millions of
people out there, and what do they want with me? and I don't care to
program for the operating system, so why should I care if its FOSS?).
From onpon4's Proprietary Software Common Arguments:
Why should I care? I
is there any way that I can easily convince my friends to atleast try to
not
use Micro$oft Windows and proprietary software?
I'm not sure. Personally, I had read articles on gnu.org for years before I
really took notice, and then it was a while after that before I started
actually
