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Why do you use open source?
| because i know that it's made by people, for people and has no malicious code inserted in it, nor any telemetry that gets info about my pc
| ^ pretty much this
| because im broke and dont wanna go to jail for ripping adobe&friends
| Because Microsoft/Google/Apple/Amazon are rich enough already
| >>105965
because, although the things which try to mimic the proprietary options are generally a bit behind them, the things built by and for programmers and "computer people" are always superior, sometimes by orders of magnitude. teach a person writing books to use vim and XeLaTeX and that person will come out the other end 10 times more productive and never touch word etc again, and the same goes for tools for many other fields
| >>106528
there are support problems, though, in areas where "computer people" generally have little experience / interest (video editing is one example)
| KDenLive is pretty good... When it works.
| I use it to either check if there really isn't any malicious code, to learn how it was programmed. Or either to help the Dev for giving her or him hints of how to improve the code.
| >>105965
I use „open source“ because „free software“ has to be open source. It's a question of freedom.
But careful: not every open source software is free software. Software companies often want benefit from community-power for free, without giving something back. That's why there is the copyleft.
Free software makes you independent from these company's. You can not make money with free software itself, but with services around it like administration, development and education.
| I use Open Source because I unabashedly hate being dependent on products which have private companies behind them which can retire and change the products without any particular reason. Not only that, but also call you a thief if you use their products after they have abandoned them.
Software Intellectual Property, fuck you!
| >>105984
i dont think trusting git hub fully is such a good idea there are a few well putting it kindly bad eggs and scripts you really down want to be running on you computer unprotected
| >>107690 Yeah, and you know if there is malicious code within the source code only of you read through the code carefully or others checked the code carefully and post comments and you coincidently read it. For most of cases people just go to github and download. It is still risky to use open source software.
| >>107804
Compared to proprietary software you CAN read the code and don't have to trust on company's that usually give a fuck about your freedom to control, read and choose the code u use on the machine YOU bought and control YOUR data. I don't care if other people don't care about their freedom. But I care if people support systems that want to make anyone unfree, including me.
| >>108599
Oh, I also care if public money is wasted for private companys that on top often refusing to give sth back to society.
Even hardcore capitalism fans do not understand how this goes against all they proclaim.
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| I love using open source and supporting the apps, but sometimes they are clunky and objectively inferior than proprietary apps. Why do you use an open source app, even if it is inferior to another property app?