Random Joe, or should I say… GNU/Joe

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Cake day: November 28th, 2021
  • Joe Bidet@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
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    1 year ago

    The thing I find hard to convey is that FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software for many reasons, most of which are non-technical: FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software if it isn’t spying on you, if it’s governance is collective, if it’s not build to make you pay for things that should be free, if it lets you decide where your data goes, etc…

    we’re often missing the point when we attempt at side-by-side comparison of FLOSS and proprietary software… It’s usually one-dimentional, and playing on our opponent’s field: these companies racketing their users based on rent-based exploitative business models will always have more resources than independant developpers to improve “UX/UI”… so I think this must not be the only prism through which reading these things.