Libervis: The Proprietary Curse

[ Thanks to Danijel
Orsolic for this link. ]

“Proprietary, the one word that will send a shiver down any Free
Software users spine, like Pandora’s Box holding a whole wealth of
curses inside just waiting to be unleashed. Any business can be
proprietary, all they have to do is disallow you the luxury of
having the source code, giving users no choice but to buy it
through the simple fact that they have no choice but to buy it. You
can pirate it to high heaven and still have enough people buying it
to make a successful business, while you think you’re sticking two
fingers up to the system what you’re really doing is becoming
dependent on their software.

“It’s almost like a drug user will give you a free sample, once
you become dependent on it their attitude soon changes, they’re no
longer youre friend, you want their stock? You buy it, it’s as
simple as that…”

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