they offer you transparency, while the alternative offers you spyware

>>108277265
The alternatives are proprietary crap or being a cuck.

>>108277265
Promoting user freedom is the opposite of communism.

a subset of programmers are a uniquely high trust population, enabling them to make the world better for everyone. Stuff like GPL is necessary for that though, otherwise they will just feel like chumps.

>>108277265
It proved that proprietary corpo shit is worse on purpose and bloated with a bunch of slimy illegal shit with no accountability.

>>108277275
>they offer you transparency,
and unusability

I'm glad this retarded bait thread didn't get so much traction.

>>108277675
name the software

>>108278816
When I pay for software it gets fixed in a timely manner. Open sores software gets fixed any time between 6 months from now and never

>>108278882
you can also pay FLOSS programmers to fix FLOSS for you

>>108277265
There's no such thing as free in communism or socialism.
You always work for the government, doing what the government need of you.

>>108278882
>When I pay for software it gets fixed in a timely manner
Unless you mean that you're paying a team of programmers to do it, that's rarely the case.
Most proprietary softwares have bugs that are never fixed, because you're not even the actual client.

>>108278882
Vibecode your own fix retard. With proprietary software you can't do that

the goal of libre software is absolutely worth it you fucking morons, it's just that licenses wont get you that

>>108277265
by not being communist

>>108279083
calm down little buddy. if you try to educate that way, you'll probably scare them

It uses the same licensing law corporations use. How it can be commie? :^)

>>108279083
>licenses
there's not a bigger nothingburger in tech than software licenses

>>108277265
Voluntary communism can be based. I grew up in a very rural village where everyone just shared everything despite some people clearly being making more than others. The more people the more impossible it is to feel like family.

>How did this get so much traction
People like being able to solve their own problems. If my TV, computer or any other product breaks I can pop them open and attempt to fix them. When my software breaks I am just fucked if it is proprietary. Unless I want to use something like Ghildra to reverse engineer it for months just to get to the starting line. Also because of provided free quality software. Microsoft nickeled and dimed everyone with no option for startups who didn't have cash flow. So people who wanted to start a business, but didn't have investors were just SOL until it came along. Then when those companies became big they reinvested in the technology that made them successful making Linux the best operating system for servers. Once it was the best it just kept snowballing.

>>108277265
It's the ideal use case for communism.
People working hard to improve their own lives and their efforts can be endlessly duplicated and reshared to improve other's lives as well.