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The Open-Source Graphics Card Is Dead by joelthelionin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber 4 points5 points ago

Kickstarter! Right? Right?

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Eben Moglen - Free Software is necessary for Free Media which is necessary for Free Thought [Video] by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 3 points4 points ago

I upvoted them just so that more people could see your response.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

It wasn't that i think you were the only person reading, it was just the speed at which I was downvoted after each response to you in particular...

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin gnu

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 4 points5 points ago

And 10 years ago you could ask any GNU Linux user if they'd ever used a good operating system.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 10 points11 points ago

Just because you can't imagine how businesses could exist in the gaming market without artificial scarcities just like people have said about literally every type of free software and free cultural work, doesn't mean that other people can't be creative.

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2011/07/free-game-lag.html

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 2 points3 points ago

I have no problem with disagreeing. I have a problem with how often you click down vote just because you disagree. People? More like rabid animals.

I actually agree with this, but don't think it should stop you from continuing the conversation. Also, I do believe you were downvoting me immediately at first too, no?

Unless what you really meant is that now that you see that people disagree with you, you concede, which is also interesting...

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin gnu

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 8 points9 points ago

Just because you can't imagine how businesses could exist in the gaming market without artificial scarcities just like people have said about literally every type of free software and free cultural work, doesn't mean that other people can't be creative.

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2011/07/free-game-lag.html

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin gnu

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 15 points16 points ago

Replace 'videogames' with browsers, operating systems, office suites, anything you like. Stallman isn't anti-business. Free software runs the world, businesses especially.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 14 points15 points ago

Replace 'videogames' with browsers, operating systems, office suites, anything you like. Stallman isn't anti-business. Free software runs the world, businesses especially.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

If we want wide scale adoption of Linux as a platform, we need to not shoot ourselves in the foot and be willing to accept and support the diversity of both open and closed source software on our platform.

Yes! I for one hope that we can all have devices like the Kindle and Tivo that are Linux based but give you no freedom! I just want that kernel in every device ever, regardless of how it functions for me

Unless of course we want our platform to be as popular and widely used as Gnusense or Hurd, if that's the case then by all means cut off both hands and feet in the name of four freedoms!!11

Right, nobody uses them becouse people hate talking about freedom, not because linux happened to be ready sooner and more mature and completely more practical.

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