Freedom and open source is not for all
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| The open source means for me
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| * possibility to choose the best option for me. No restrictions
| given by "dictator". But it also means responsibility for the choice
| that was taken.
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| [...]
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| On the other hand, closed source represents
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| * no choice. Once I live in proprietary software world, I do not
| have much choices. The companies creates lock-in strategies and it
| is painful to change the vendor.
| * I do not have any impact on the functionality of the closed
| software. OK, one can write a mail to the company asking for a
| feature, but the result is the same like changing totalitarianism
| via "elections".
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| [...]
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http://blog.zmok.net/articles/2006/07/19/freedom-and-open-source-is-not-for-all
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