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Windows is not free as in freedom (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by trespasser69 to c/technology
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Fuck Micro$oft

It's time to switch to Linux! Because it's free as in freedom.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

we are. "open" can mean lot of things, and the original post was not about open, it was about free. no one has to be convinced windows are not free, it is as surprising as the fact people don't fuck for love in brothel.

if anything, this is far more funny:

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Open absolutely cannot mean a lot of things, and there is no possible legitimate definition of open that could ever in any context be used to describe Windows, with the sole exception of "open to bad actors".

It's a locked down, restrictive, broken pile of shit.