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Free As In Freedom
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<span class="border-r border-gray pr-2 mr-2">April 09, 2024</span>1007 words, posted in <a href="/articles/tag/general/">general</a>, <a href="/articles/tag/open-source/">open-source</a> and <a href="/articles/tag/software/">software</a>
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<p>This is a hot take kind of article, but here it goes the rant.</p>
<h2>This applies to me and you.</h2>
<p>I’m writing this to remind myself somethings that I too often take for granted. I am going to<br />
preface this whole article by saying that everything I’m going to lay out / mention is something<br />
that I am personally guilty of. This is an open reminder and call out of things that I feel should<br />
change.</p>
<h1>Our perspective is flawed</h1>
<p>Nobody can dispute that the advances in technology have greatly improved our lives. Like anything,<br />
though, there is a trade off.</p>
<h2>What is FOSS</h2>
<p>FOSS is an acronym for “Free and Open Source Software”. It is generally about how software is<br />
licensed, meaning that the source code is available in the public for review, allowing a broader<br />
spectrum of people than the originators of the code to have input, look for bugs, redistribute the<br />
software, contribute, etc. It does not however mean that the software should be no cost to the end<br />
user.</p>
<p>This is where the word “freedom” comes into it. Overtime, as a society, we generally now think of<br />
FOSS as “free” software. This takes what was originally a noble / courageous idea and devalues it to<br />
the point that we now expect things to be free. It encourages corporate greed to take advantage of<br />
people who created something to solve a particular need, or as a hobby, expecting the creator to<br />
handle the burden of maintaining / patching bugs while they profit from it. Don’t get me wrong,<br />
these corporations will also contribute back, sometimes even donate money to the creators. I am not<br />
at all opposed to capitalism, nor saying that these corporations are in the wrong. At the end of the<br />
day, <strong><em>we</em></strong> created this problem.</p>
<h2>Current state and how we got here</h2>
<p>Software services / giants create applications that we come to rely on. They tempt / bait us with<br />
them being “free” or cheap, but that is because <strong><em>we</em></strong> are their target. They bloat the software<br />
with tracking and telemetry to capture data about us and sell us more products and services. Once<br />
again, if you’re pro-capitalism, it’s somewhat hard to blame them for this. We’re the gullible sheep<br />
who will blindly eat out their grain bins.</p>
<p>I can remember back in the day when there were music pirating services on the internet (napster is<br />
the one that comes to mind). As a giant music buff, I quickly jumped on board with services like<br />
these. Back in those days, I was young, didn’t make very much money, so it was hard to afford the<br />
latest and greatest tunes. I also remember back in this time frame a lawsuit from the metal giants<br />
Metallica (other’s words not mine ;)). At the time I remember thinking, like many others, that<br />
Metallica didn’t need the money, but then a comment from Lars Ulrich the band’s drummer struck a<br />
cord with me (pun intended). I’ll will paraphrase here, but it was something along the lines of<br />
“We’re not pursuing this for us, but for all of those (musicians) that come after us”. After this<br />
and reflection, I decided that I would not pirate music anymore.</p>
<p>Fast forward, now the majority do not purchases music / albums, we typically utilize streaming<br />
services (myself included), sure it may be more fair to the artists than pirating was, it can be<br />
argued that it’s easier today for independent artists to become known / discovered, I’m also in no<br />
way saying the old school music industry wasn’t a giant pile of dog poo, but I am saying that who is<br />
really winning(?), it’s the Spotify’s and Apple Music’s of the world, that’s who.</p>
<p>I’m also reminded of the great “MeasureQuick is now charging for services” that happened in the HVAC<br />
industry. I have personally never complained and have always supported this decision, because it is<br />
not sustainable to run a software company and not charge for services, generally. Sure, you may not<br />
like their pricing model, etc. Where I think they went wrong was not charging from the beginning, as<br />
it sets the wrong expectation that is presumably hard to recover from. There are those who took some<br />
of Jim’s words / opinions in a way different from how I do / did, which is fine, we’re all entitled<br />
to our opinions. What is often forgotten is that we’re all also entitled to change those opinions.<br />
Heck, I will probably be shouting a different story tomorrow, so be it!</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>What I would like to encourage people to do is to support software development. If an application is<br />
free, but has a donate button consider giving a donation. If an application is free and they don’t<br />
want to charge that’s fine too, however I would say to be suspicous, meaning is it free because<br />
<strong><em>you</em></strong> are the product?!?</p>
<p>I would also encourage you to be active in communities and organizations that foster community (HVAC<br />
School is a great example). Show appreciation and encouragement, but at the same time don’t be<br />
afraid to be critical or speak up.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, I hope to lift up my brothers and sisters, help to fight against the<br />
corporations who abuse the little guy’s and hopefully feel good about my decisions.</p>
<p>Over the last few weeks, I have been going through my software and services and looking for those<br />
donation buttons and giving back a little bit for the software that makes my life better. Help<br />
change the narrative and remember that it’s about <strong><em>Freedom not Free</em></strong>.</p>
<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software">Open-source Software</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation">Free Software Fondation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a></li>
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<h3>Software used in this blog.</h3>
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<li><a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/poison/">Hugo Theme</a></li>
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