All of my software exists to destroy capital.
Quite literally. That is the true purpose of free software to me.
To eliminate capitalist control over my computing.
And for that matter corporate control of the same.
Thus saith the Preacher:
> If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the “owner” of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
> Richard M. Stallman
It also literally destroys capital; consider the case of Blender. Whole proprietary software industries have died in its wake, replaced by a world where 3D artists collaboratively contribute to Blender, either with code, or with money to pay for code.
This is a good thing.
Further, it is essential that the software be fully free; not merely gratis; and I am here assuming that it is not truly gratis but made gratis through piracy. Piracy is not receiving something for nothing; rather you are just loaning the software for so long as that software does nothing to improve your economic situation.
Once it does, you will have to buy it, if you live anywhere but Russia. And even in that country, Russian-developed software must be bought. Because the costs of not doing so, of having your piracy discovered by the "non-profits" such as the Microsoft-funded Business Software Alliance (BSA), will become greater than the license.
And by that point you will be a slave to it, for you will know its ins and outs and all its quirks but have no say over its operation.
Only blue-pilled socialists use proprietary software.
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this is what modern java, the OOP-obsessed language looks like nowadays
collection.stream().map(i -> foo(i)).filter(o -> o.isBar()).collect(Collectors.toList())
it's all streams everywhere now. objects are old news.
>>21506>>21534what a fucking idiot
>>21647yes its dumb rhetoric. no i still dont want to use proprietary shit
>>19498https://ardour.org/ (FOSS)
https://www.reaper.fm/ (not FOSS)
btw there's a thread for linux musicians on here
I was thinking about how to make Flash-esque vector animations with a full FOSS set-up
Inkscape for drawing vector key frames -> Synfig for tweening -> Audacity for recording voices and other audio -> Kdenlive or Shotcut for doing the final editing and rendering
There's also this "rendering manager" thing that takes Synfig projects as well as Blender and Krita projects:
https://morevnaproject.itch.io/renderchanhttps://morevnaproject.org/documentation/how-to-install/It's all kind of modular
There's also this open-source program called OpenToonz which allows you to both draw and animate, but it's only available on Windows and macOS
>>21645yeah, because the objects being streamed are plain text and not structured data. Unix philosophy wins again!
>>22386just ask any musician you know.
all these posts are damage control and you know it.
>>21000>Zoomers are even worse, they don't even know what a server is anymore.Hi, elder zoomer here (born in 1998), and even though I was my time's equivalent of an iPad kid (I was on my computer basically all the time I could be, and I basically always had internet access, all since I was 3), I now code emulators for fun. Hell, I'd be willing to bet that the MAJORITY of successful emulator developers are probably older zoomers or younger millennials. You're thinking more of Gen Alpha, and I honestly think they're like that because their parents just DO NOT GIVE A SHIT. Also because most of their parents weren't into tech as well. My dad was, he built me my first computer. He also has had a computer since he was a kid BTW, back in the 80s. The man had an 8-bit Atari of some sort, apparently. My grandpa, my dad's dad, was born in 1939, and bought a computer around that time too, also for home use. My family has been into home computing since the 80s, and video games since the 70s (My dad's first console was a fucking Fairchild Channel F even lol).
>>22795yeah it doesn't matter if corporations are sending code, it's still free software
the users can keep using a version they like forever or fork and continue without a bad change
>>22800I side with RMS and even I don't think GNU/Linux is that good, the criticisms of the OpenBSD guys are valid and it would be too close-minded to dismiss them. And the Big Tech has too much influence on the kernel, it is true.
Embrace Hurd. That said, I'd still pick Debian or BSD over some proprietary spyware any day of the week, no, thanks.
>>22790The Internet was literally made by the NSA, and yet people still have developed ways to circumvent surveillance. The matter of who's in control shouldn't be decided by who contributes to the project but rather by who can control the use, development and distribution of the software. When it comes to proprietary software, the megacorps are basically gods, you can't stop them in any way. Libre software gives at least some protection from that because even if the project starts glowing you can still fork it, although, as Linux (the kernel) and systemd show, this is not enough. I think the combination of copyleft, the Unix philosophy, good documentation, clean and easy-to-understand code, security by design and other practices all contribute to better user control of the software.
>>22855>The Internet was made by DARPA, dumbassDo you have anger management issues? You can tell people they're wrong witbout being pissed off for literally no reason.
I stand corrected.
>>20983>artfags will always be the enemy of free software. they simply lack the spirit for altruismAltruism has nothing to do with digital autonomy, it is pure selfishness that forces me to help you in the first place.
>>22867>lol people don't use Linux precisely because its impracticable and an obstacle to community collaborationThat's just wrong, people don't use GNU/Linux because of habit and because Windows is pre-installed, it does not complicate collaboration in any way. Tell me how exactly it ruins collaboration with others, you can use proprietary software just fine with Wine or a VM. It's like complaining about a person using a Macbook.
>Imagine trying to make jazz music and stopping everyone because of some weird issueYeah. Like getting paid well. Such a non-issue, it is an obstacle for collaborating with the employer, how dare you be so self-serving?
>>22867>people don't use Linux precisely because its impracticable and an obstacle to community collaborationit's not about linux at all. artfags simply won't give away their stuff even if it's made on a mac or windows, unlike programmers who have a culture of sharing code and contributing just because they enjoy programming.
artists will always use copyright to restrict sharing even as they themselves rip off other artists when they make remixes or copy other authors based on industry trends, etc.
>>25488>encourages personal property rightsSounds like a licence issue and not representative of FOSS as a whole.
>and enterpeneurialismit eliminates entrepeneurial opportunities.
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