Reminder that you can't be a robot unless you care

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And know that what people refer to as "Linux" is in fact "GNU/Linux" or as I call it GNU plus Linux.

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>>34837118
>Reminder that you can't be a robot unless you care about free software
agreed

>>34837118
I'm in my second year of compsci. I care about monetizing all software. Can you imagine a free distro that sells ad space on the desktop background? But then again I'm a libertarian, not a commie.

Can I at least be a cyborg?

>>34838662
>Can you imagine a free distro that sells ad space on the desktop background?
I don't give a shit and GNU/Linux autism but how the fuck do you think this is a good idea? Jesus

>>34838662
>But then again I'm a libertarian, not a commie.
i don't get this. you may have been being facetious, but just because you're pro-capitalism doesn't mean you can't appreciate people voluntarily working together to make free software. not everything has to mirror your political position.

>>34838700
I respect people's right to work for free if they so choose.

Our political positions are determined by our morals, ethics and beliefs. Not everything has to mirror my political position, but that position is tied to the lens through which I view the world. It is inseparable from my perception and it heavily influences my thoughts and actions. I can't turn it off, because it IS me.

>>34838662
>Can you imagine a free distro that sells ad space on the desktop background?
Why would anyone use that

>>34838811
That's what we need to do. If we had the answer it would already exist. We need to find the feature that interests the customer base enough to ignore the minor inconvenience of seeing an ad in the blank space usually reserved for pictures of cats or mountains or a default company logo. Waste. If it was just a more secure windows 95 I would jump on it. I'm not the typical user though. We need to find the sales feature. It would be slow to grow, but the ad revenue would enable a lot of work to be done on it.

>>34838769
>Not everything has to mirror my political position, but that position is tied to the lens through which I view the world.
what i mean is that not everything has to break down into those kind of categories, being communist or capitalist for example. there are other considerations for having an open source os besides economic that i think a libertarian would be interested in. i'm not trying to make you install gentoo. i just thought it was weird that you basically implied open source = commie shit.

>>34838901
I know that the open source movement isn't actively trying to redistribute my wealth. I don't have any for the to do so if they wanted to. And there are many aspects I do appreciate. Their management of licensing fees. A company failing but not their product/legacy. Anybody being able to jump in and have the ability to do as they please with the source for the most part.
What would the open source movement look like in a deregulated society? I don't know that it would exist.