Most used email client: Gmail. Freedom: 0, and you are the product.
Notepad, originally released in 1983, free as in beer since Windows 1.0 in 1985.
I'd rather pay for a text editor and email client than be the product.
Open collaboration is a joke - it's always a very small group of highly technical people, paid by someone, only useful if it can be funded as a loss leader for some other part of the business. The ideological foundations are untenable at best as very little of the actual requirements of computing (graphics cards, processors, ethernet PHYs, etc) are in any way "free" - this is what I meant by people stroking their Freedom Totem, and why the whole thing is built on sand, and that computers are too cheap for them to notice. People focus on whatever their pet project is, rather than band together to actually FREE (as in freedom) computing.
We all gave up well before the Freedom dream was achieved, and in its place we got free text editors, email clients, and a surveillance based web. It's depressing.
Notepad, originally released in 1983, free as in beer since Windows 1.0 in 1985.
I'd rather pay for a text editor and email client than be the product.
Open collaboration is a joke - it's always a very small group of highly technical people, paid by someone, only useful if it can be funded as a loss leader for some other part of the business. The ideological foundations are untenable at best as very little of the actual requirements of computing (graphics cards, processors, ethernet PHYs, etc) are in any way "free" - this is what I meant by people stroking their Freedom Totem, and why the whole thing is built on sand, and that computers are too cheap for them to notice. People focus on whatever their pet project is, rather than band together to actually FREE (as in freedom) computing.
We all gave up well before the Freedom dream was achieved, and in its place we got free text editors, email clients, and a surveillance based web. It's depressing.