>Selling proprietary software for money is a lot less immoral than using free software to sell user data for money
Except you're wrong, it's the fact we never got property rights and software became licensed to begin with. We should be living in a world where we had rights to source code and program ownership from the beginning. You don't seem to get Microsoft and big software companies benefited from 200 years of big media companies lobbying away the public domain and any rights to own works. Copyright was the back door to get rid of property rights from the public.
Software licensing is what lead us to this DRM dystopia, you can't have DRM if you own the bits you buy outright at point of purchase instead of "licensing them".
It's the software licensing model for the public where the public has no right to own the software it buys that's at the root of the madness. Not free software advocates.
The reality is we desperately needs property rights for consumers, I've watched for 20 years as the PC game industry stole PC games by client-server back ending them to take the files hostage on remote PC's...
Software as a service and DRM enabled by lack of property rights for the public is the real enemy of privacy and freedom buddy.
We should have had the right to own software like we own our clothes and houses. We can own our cars, houses and repair them, but we can't do that with software.
So huge swatches of human history are being kept in corporate vaults behind lock and key.
Companies like irdeto are pure scum in trying to game encrypt binaries. Don't get me started on mobile gacha games.
The whole software ecosystem is made on bad american IP law where the software buyer has no rights and all the cards are held by big tech companies.
Don't blame free software advocates. Blame lack of the public having any ownership rights over the software it buys.
We now live in a world where Microsoft can claim they "own" the files on my computer via American IP law magic and I don't really have a right to use my software and computer how I see fit because of bs IP laws written by american corporate lobbyists.
So whole swaths of video game and PC software history are being actively destroyed and done knowingly so.
Microsoft is planning to lock down the PC and, DRM like steam, origin, uplay, MMO's, client-server software is all about the end of freedom on the PC as an open platform.
Except you're wrong, it's the fact we never got property rights and software became licensed to begin with. We should be living in a world where we had rights to source code and program ownership from the beginning. You don't seem to get Microsoft and big software companies benefited from 200 years of big media companies lobbying away the public domain and any rights to own works. Copyright was the back door to get rid of property rights from the public.
Software licensing is what lead us to this DRM dystopia, you can't have DRM if you own the bits you buy outright at point of purchase instead of "licensing them".
It's the software licensing model for the public where the public has no right to own the software it buys that's at the root of the madness. Not free software advocates.
The reality is we desperately needs property rights for consumers, I've watched for 20 years as the PC game industry stole PC games by client-server back ending them to take the files hostage on remote PC's...
Software as a service and DRM enabled by lack of property rights for the public is the real enemy of privacy and freedom buddy.
We should have had the right to own software like we own our clothes and houses. We can own our cars, houses and repair them, but we can't do that with software.
So huge swatches of human history are being kept in corporate vaults behind lock and key.
Companies like irdeto are pure scum in trying to game encrypt binaries. Don't get me started on mobile gacha games.
The whole software ecosystem is made on bad american IP law where the software buyer has no rights and all the cards are held by big tech companies.
Don't blame free software advocates. Blame lack of the public having any ownership rights over the software it buys.
We now live in a world where Microsoft can claim they "own" the files on my computer via American IP law magic and I don't really have a right to use my software and computer how I see fit because of bs IP laws written by american corporate lobbyists.
So whole swaths of video game and PC software history are being actively destroyed and done knowingly so.
Microsoft is planning to lock down the PC and, DRM like steam, origin, uplay, MMO's, client-server software is all about the end of freedom on the PC as an open platform.