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Windows is not free as in freedom (lemmy.world)
submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by trespasser69@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Fuck Micro$oft

It's time to switch to Linux! Because it's free as in freedom.

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[–] LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

https://www.threads.net/@pureinfotech/post/DCzbB-jJvfD/thoughts-anyone-is-windows-the-most-open-operating-system-is-there-any-linux-use

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is marketing puffery. It's an imprecise claim about the product's goodness that cannot be objectively tested.

[–] LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Duh

(I know, you watched a recent WAN show and just wanted to brag with the word puffery)

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I hadn't heard of the WAN show before this comment. I learned about puffery as a kid when my parents were shopping for a car and I was very excited to inform them I had just heard on the radio that a specific dealership was the best.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

that specifically says open, not free. it is marketing buzzword you can project really anything into.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't resemble open in any legitimate interpretation of the word, though.

Even if you hack your way to a tolerable experience, they can and will randomly revert changes you make on a whim.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

we are slowly drifting away from the original point...

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We're not. The point is that Microsoft is lying and pretending Windows isn't a locked down pile of shit.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

we are. "open" can mean lot of things, and the original post was not about open, it was about free. no one has to be convinced windows are not free, it is as surprising as the fact people don't fuck for love in brothel.

if anything, this is far more funny:

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Open absolutely cannot mean a lot of things, and there is no possible legitimate definition of open that could ever in any context be used to describe Windows, with the sole exception of "open to bad actors".

It's a locked down, restrictive, broken pile of shit.