s a d l i f e wrote:
Xen wrote:
I mean, at some point you have to make compromise to live. Even if you pay anonymously in cash, that pizza restaurant is still funtioning on non-free POS systems. >tfw the botnet wants me to starve!
You know, I was at an airport recently, and had to order my food through an iPad. I wonder if Stallman would be okay using this device if a service worker was operating it for him.
Tbh, you messed up on the iPad part already, it would be better to use your own device.
https://stallman.org/apple.html
I'm assuming it was an integrated part of the restaurant's ordering system. Kinda like a wall terminal, only mobile.
Anyhow, Stallman has always been a saint in the worlds of FOSS and privacy, but as @[deleted] said, most of us normal folk need to make compromises to live. Yeah, I use Google and Bing to save me a minute's worth of refining a query on DuckDuckGo; yeah, I prefer Windows because Wireshark can't properly capture packets on my Linux machine; and, yeah, I use proprietary services like Discord and Gmail on the daily. Though I'm sure he'd condemn me for it, my university's preference and busy schedule makes these things a necessity.