Alcides Fonseca

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Stupid Stallman

Mário wrote a post that could be written by me (except I haven’t met him live), and I’d like to quote a couple of things:

Secondly, please respect the freedom of choice. The freedom to use whatever we want to use.

This is the fucking more important thing you should learn form that post. This is why I don’t believe in the Free Software as in “All software should be opensourced and free to change, distribute and so.”. This is one of the things I’m not happy with GPL. They claim it’s totally free, but it isn’t. If you want to make any change to it, you have to make those changes available to everybody. That’s why in my personal opensource projects, I use the WTFPL.

Free software doesn’t need proprietary software to fail so it can thrive. Both can coexist.

I’ve been saying this shit right from the start, actually I’ve said it: “I believe both OpenSource and Proprietary Software should co-exist.” And they called me nuts. A friend of mine, who really supports OpenSource model, justifies that he doesn’t contribute because that doesn’t pay the bills at the end of the day, and he doesn’t want to do any more development outside of his working day. And I’m understanding that.

Oh, just as a final note: this post was written on the same day I wrote an memo for a school assignment trying to convince the Justice Ministry to change to Free Software. (With started to happen a while ago)