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-* 2024  [51/51]                                                       :@blog:
+* 2024  [52/52]                                                       :@blog:
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-** Free Software and the wrong crowd
+** DONE Free Software and the wrong crowd
+CLOSED: [2024-07-16 Tue 21:01]
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 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract An essey about Free Software and the "wrong crowd" for it
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-
 Free Software is a movement aiming at changing the world.
 Seize the means of computation!
 
@@ -39,31 +39,29 @@ Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, an
 #+end_quote
 
 Stallman wrote it 40 years ago.
-It's obvious that Open Source has won!
+It's obvious that Free Software has won!
 We have GNU/Linux, Redis, Android, Emacs.
 Time to open champagne and dance on the grave of System V.
-But is is really the best it's ever been?
+But is it really the best it's ever been?
 
-Personal computing is as widepsread as it never has been.
-Virtually everyone, in every midly developed country has used a computer - even if in the form of a phone.
+Personal computing is more widespread as it ever has been.
+Virtually everyone, in every mildly developed country, has used a computer - even if in the form of a phone.
 We are living in the world of tomorrow.
 
-And yes, open source software is the backbone of this world.
-While there are still places where propetiery systems run the serverland, Linux is the default.
+Free Software is the backbone of this world.
+While there are still places where propriety systems run the server land, Linux is the default.
 Most people don't even think about too deep.
-Web services run Linux (be it GNU or not).
-Install Linux on AWS, throw Docker on top of it, sprinkle with Kubernetess and boom - a startup was born.
+Web services run Linux (be it GNU or not) - install Linux on AWS, throw Docker on top of it, sprinkle with Kubernetes and boom - a startup was born.
 
-The desktop is also having a pinguin moment.
+The desktop is also having a penguin moment.
 Steam gave it the biggest push towards mass appeal.
 People can finally do their computing on a Linux machine - use the browser and play games.
 
 But note the trend here.
-It's all intertwined with propietery software.
-Linux popularity is not because it's free (as freedom), but /despite/ of it.
-The push is happening because propetiery software can run on it!
-I even think, that in 2024 Linux is actually free as in /free beer/.
-It is owned by big tech, and while Linux still controls the kernel, he is paid by them.
+It's all intertwined with proprietary software.
+Linux popularity is here not because it's free (as freedom), but /despite/ of it.
+The push is happening because proprietary software can run on it!
+It is owned by big tech, and while Linus still controls the kernel, he is paid by them.
 
 It made him a (very) rich man, but in the process broader Linux is less GNU.
 
@@ -79,34 +77,28 @@ And people clap, and party, and pat each other on the backs.
 /Open Source/ is eating the world!
 Even your phone most likely run a semi-open source operating system.
 
-But in reality, unless you are talkig with people into FOSS, they don't care about any idealogy behind the software.
+But in reality, unless you are speaking with people into FOSS, they don't care about any ideology behind the software.
 Whatever makes them productive, or simply get the thing done.
-Tinkering is just a nuasance, a problem one needs to overcome to do the thing.
-
-I got my firt computer at the age of 8.
-A glorious MS-DOS running 386 beast.
-When I saw my mother running a game, it was magical.
-But my actual love started with me discovering scripting with .bat files.
-Writing a dedicated runner for the games was almost as cool as those 8 following hours spend building my Civilization.
-I had a huge grim when I changed the boring =C:/= promt to =Yes Master?=.
-
-You can no longer do any of that on the most popular computers.
-Software freedom has significantly dicreased in those 30 years since I first started discovering computing.
-It's much harder to adjust modern OS to own needs (or even run it without an internet account), than it was back then.
-Yes, the first few steps are much more noob friendly.
-The very /basics/ of using the computer are easy.
-But to go furher?
-To make the computer /your own/?
-It's difficult!
-
-Try changing accent color to =poo-brown= in MacOS.
-It's impossible, while my Windows 95 was gloriously ugly.
-
-
-- freedom is limitted
-- people are forbidden to participate
-- folks clap happily
-
+Tinkering is just a nuisance, a problem one needs to overcome to do /the thing/.
+
+The only thing which makes Linux popular is the opposite of what it was.
+Linux is no longer a free land, ruled by the masses.
+It went to bed with Big Tech, and stayed there.
+
+The moment of Linux is created by Valve and Steam.
+They /made/ what thousands of open-source developers couldn't - run the software, which people want to use.
+It just happens, that this kind of software is not free.
+It's closed source, paid, full of licensing hells, DRMed throughout.
+The kind of software Stallman warned us about.
+
+So no.
+I am not thinking about the "year of Linux" as something good.
+For me, this kind of /success/ is a failure of society.
+Linux is fully usable by the wrong crowd, the one that would not touch it with a mile long pole when it was in the hands of hackers.
+But this crowd is almost everyone who uses computers now.
+
+And Linux is simply a better version of Windows now.
+Not the enemy we were though it is, but a companion.
 
 
 ** DONE Sports ruin everything 
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+title = "Free Software and the wrong crowd"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-07-16T21:01:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+abstract = """
+  An essey about Free Software and the "wrong crowd" for it
+  """
++++
+
+Free Software is a movement aiming at changing the world.
+Seize the means of computation!
+
+> Complete system sources will be available to everyone.
+> As a result, a user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself, or hire any available programmer or company to make them for him.
+> Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the sources and is in sole position to make changes.
+>
+> [...]
+>
+> Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
+>
+> -- [The GNU Manifesto, Richard Stallman, 1983](https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html)
+
+Stallman wrote it 40 years ago.
+It's obvious that Free Software has won!
+We have GNU/Linux, Redis, Android, Emacs.
+Time to open champagne and dance on the grave of System V.
+But is it really the best it's ever been?
+
+Personal computing is more widespread as it ever has been.
+Virtually everyone, in every mildly developed country, has used a computer - even if in the form of a phone.
+We are living in the world of tomorrow.
+
+Free Software is the backbone of this world.
+While there are still places where propriety systems run the server land, Linux is the default.
+Most people don't even think about too deep.
+Web services run Linux (be it GNU or not) - install Linux on AWS, throw Docker on top of it, sprinkle with Kubernetes and boom - a startup was born.
+
+The desktop is also having a penguin moment.
+Steam gave it the biggest push towards mass appeal.
+People can finally do their computing on a Linux machine - use the browser and play games.
+
+But note the trend here.
+It's all intertwined with proprietary software.
+Linux popularity is here not because it's free (as freedom), but _despite_ of it.
+The push is happening because proprietary software can run on it!
+It is owned by big tech, and while Linus still controls the kernel, he is paid by them.
+
+It made him a (very) rich man, but in the process broader Linux is less GNU.
+
+> ... many people will program with absolutely no monetary incentive.
+> Programming has an irresistible fascination for some people, usually the people who are best at it.
+> There is no shortage of professional musicians who keep at it even though they have no hope of making a living that way.
+>
+> -- [The GNU Manifesto, Richard Stallman, 1983](https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html)
+
+And people clap, and party, and pat each other on the backs.
+_Open Source_ is eating the world!
+Even your phone most likely run a semi-open source operating system.
+
+But in reality, unless you are speaking with people into FOSS, they don't care about any ideology behind the software.
+Whatever makes them productive, or simply get the thing done.
+Tinkering is just a nuisance, a problem one needs to overcome to do _the thing_.
+
+The only thing which makes Linux popular is the opposite of what it was.
+Linux is no longer a free land, ruled by the masses.
+It went to bed with Big Tech, and stayed there.
+
+The moment of Linux is created by Valve and Steam.
+They _made_ what thousands of open-source developers couldn't - run the software, which people want to use.
+It just happens, that this kind of software is not free.
+It's closed source, paid, full of licensing hells, DRMed throughout.
+The kind of software Stallman warned us about.
+
+So no.
+I am not thinking about the "year of Linux" as something good.
+For me, this kind of _success_ is a failure of society.
+Linux is fully usable by the wrong crowd, the one that would not touch it with a mile long pole when it was in the hands of hackers.
+But this crowd is almost everyone who uses computers now.
+
+And Linux is simply a better version of Windows now.
+Not the enemy we were though it is, but a companion.