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title: "Why I Don't Like Proprietary Software (as an Anarchist)"
date: 2022-08-08T4:50:00-07:00
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title: Why I Don't Like Proprietary Software (as an Anarchist)
date: 2022-08-08T04:50:00.000-07:00
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- computers
- software freedom
- anarchism
- goolag
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> Why aren't you using normal software?
*Alright, so this article is mainly meant for the people at uni who glance over at my laptop screen and wonder why I'm not using a "normal" operating system.*
_Alright, so this article is mainly meant for the people at uni who glance over at my laptop screen and wonder why I'm not using a "normal" operating system._
*In short, I believe that proprietary software is an existential threat to our individual autonomy.*
_In short, I believe that proprietary software is an existential threat to our individual autonomy._
*For the long answer well, you'll have to actually **read** it.*
_For the long answer well, you'll have to actually **read** it._
What do I mean when I say that proprietary software is an existential threat to our individual autonomy? To start with, there are a significant amount of incentives for proprietary software developers to do things which harm your autonomy, such as operating systems which prevent the user from installing apps other than from a single location. Since there is no way to excercise [your freedoms](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms), it is impossible to verify that the software isn't doing injustice to you, such as with [period tracking apps providing data to tech giants without user consent](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/opinions/period-trackers-app-roe-abortion-ranney-yao/index.html).