someone: *expresses building frustration over increasingly impossible-to-use software*

techbro: "well ACTUALLY free software is the best in terms of morality"

if someone is frustrated with a piece of free software and decides to use something else proprietary because they're in the middle of a fucking video game and need to communicate with their teammate, telling them they're making a negative moral choice by doing so is Not A Good Idea

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you're not winning anyone over to your side

your making them despise you and the culture you surround yourself with that much more

@vantablack rms cold emailed me asking me why i'm still running macOS. i wrote a 5000 word open letter reply which i have not published yet

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@amolith @vantablack i may never publish it tbh, it's a lot of whiny finger pointing that i don't think will actually cause any meaningful productive change, despite my multiple attempts to root-cause it

@sneak @amolith @vantablack arguing with fundamentalists is as useful as emailing strangers demanding they change their software.

@Sophistifunk @amolith @vantablack you seem to have misunderstood: he did not demand anything of me, he emailed me asking me a question.

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