Gustephan t1_iz0tl0i wrote on December 5, 2022 at 5:15 PM

Reply to comment by suflaj in [D] Are ML platforms honestly useful or just money-making on software that's really free? by [deleted]

What an L take. Comparing open source software to communism is openly admitting that you don't understand either of those concepts

suflaj t1_iz0vqid wrote on December 5, 2022 at 5:29 PM

Except I am not comparing anything to communism, but summarizing Stallman's manifesto as an appeal to communism, which it is.

I asked why someone would consider it necessary for such software to be free because I thought the argument would be about some functionality that already exists as free software or something that was taken from free software.

Yet OP just copy pasted an argument that is incompatible outside of an utopic setting, from a person that no longer has a place in modern society due to his wrongdoings.

Cizox t1_iz11jvz wrote on December 5, 2022 at 6:05 PM

Communism is when free stuff

suflaj t1_iz12fzk wrote on December 5, 2022 at 6:11 PM

Not at all, do not strawman. It is Stallman himself who notes that the free in software refers to freedom, not cost in the first place.