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| Why I Don't Like Proprietary Software (as an Anarchist) | 2022-08-08T4:50:00-07:00 | true |
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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.
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.
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, 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.