And yet I've no doubt you'd be happy to call somebody who knowingly sold you a car you could not service "evil" (or something to that effect). Or what about companies that sell you content with DRM, preventing you from even doing legal things with it?
Now, perhaps you are fine with both of these things. And that's not an entirely unreasonable position to have. But not being fine with DRM or unmodifiable products is also fine, and disliking companies that sell these is completely valid. Disliking proprietary software is just taking the same idea and extending it, which is also entirely reasonable.
>Id yet I've no doubt you'd be happy to call somebody who knowingly sold you a car you could not service "evil" (or something to that effect).
Actually, I'd not buy such a car in the first place. But you're really not resorting to car analogies right?
>Or what about companies that sell you content with DRM, preventing you from even doing legal things with it?
Same thing - I don't buy it for the most part.
However, being anti DRM and being a FOSS zealot are two different things.
You'd be surprised how much "unmodifiable" software indeed ends up modifiable when enough people get interested.
In any case, I take great offense at the notion that I am somehow a bad person for not letting everybody in the world use my product for free, hence the notion at the end of my previous post. Which still stands, downvotes be damned.
Now, perhaps you are fine with both of these things. And that's not an entirely unreasonable position to have. But not being fine with DRM or unmodifiable products is also fine, and disliking companies that sell these is completely valid. Disliking proprietary software is just taking the same idea and extending it, which is also entirely reasonable.