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"Does it matter? His message isn't for non-programmers."

I see. Well then, carry on.

But maybe then do not wonder when the rest of the world does not care about software freedom and also don't donate or support it in any way.

Oh and Plato is well known as a philosopher, but yes, most people do not know that he proposed a very totalitarian state and is rather known for platonic love.




>But maybe then do not wonder when the rest of the world does not care about software freedom and also don't donate or support it in any way.

30+% of my country can't even be damned to vote for their next president. Getting the layman to care is really hard, which is why advertising is a trillion dollar business.

Perfect enemy of good and all that. Lawyers for 99% of their cases don't rely on public sentiment to get their argument through. At least not active public sentiment.


> But maybe then do not wonder when the rest of the world does not care about software freedom and also don't donate or support it in any way.

I mean, i would more wonder why people would think the rest of the world care about the gnu project's four freedoms or even understand them.

Half the time we can't even get citizens to care about basic things like freedom of speech.


Everyone wants to fully control the devices they own. But more importantly they want their devices to work. So a half working open source lineageOS mobile is less valuable to them (and me), than a closed source, but working blob.

But if you can get them to understand, that open source eventually means consumer friendly, that the device will be fully under their control(no ads, no restrictions) and working if OSS gets more support, they will listen. But since they largely do not know all this, I think it is exactly because most free software preaching evolves only around devs.




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