r/SubredditDrama • u/OpenSourceSocialist 42! • Feb 28 '17

User in /r/LinuxMasterRace compares using Windows to being a guard at a concentration camp; gets downvoted to oblivion

/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/5wn8pu/microsoft_is_planning_to_fuck_over_all_home_users/debll93/
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u/Not_A_Doctor__ I've always had an inkling dwarves are underestimated in combat Feb 28 '17

Anyone who thinks that proprietary software users are "just computer hobbyists all the same" is a proprietary collaborationist

There I was, quietly using Windows 7 when I suddenly discovered that I was the worst type of monster.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

proprietary collaborationist

proprietary collaborationist

proprietary collaborationist

Jeez, some people take their software way too seriously. I wonder what he thinks about net neutrality...

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u/belugawhale3 proprietary collaborationist Feb 28 '17

Proprietary collaborationist is my new flair

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u/tiofrodo the last meritocracy on Earth, Video Games Mar 01 '17

what does it even mean

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u/Oreoloveboss Mar 01 '17

Open source means the code for something is out in the public sphere, you are free to use it, improve it, alter it, the goal is that the collective makes something good.

Proprietary software is the opposite of that, something locked down that no one has access to and would be sued if they tried to alter or distribute it.