Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

  • herrvogel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    7 months ago

    What that means is Linux is spyware. So are pretty much every Foss project out there.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Yeah. It’s a dumb statement because there are plenty of paid things that make you the product and plenty of free ones that don’t.

    • jnk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Except FOSS explicitly implies the user is free (as in freedom, not 0$), and the software isn’t a product or service, but a tool.

      That line only applies when a non-free service or software that’s supposed to be meant for profit doesn’t have a clear money income. Don’t compare “oh how generous is google for giving me free email and drive for no shady reasons at all” to “i host my own email and cloud using foss projects”.

      Also, windows is basically spyware with a bit of unoptimized OS on top and you still (should) pay for it.

    • olutukko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      it do be a dumb statement because it generalizes a lot but in propiertary software it msot often is true