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Are there Empowering vs. Enslaving softwares?

12 pointsby panjaroover 10 years ago
Do apps/software enslave or empower? I feel there is some difference but struggling to convince myself.

3 comments

RRWagnerover 10 years ago
I thought the question was more open-ended than just IDEs. Clearly there is consumer software designed to be addictive, and other software designed to create things which can empower a user to do more than they could without the software. Propietary vs. open-source isn't the issue so much as whether the core idea behind the software is to serve the user or to capture them.
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sprw121over 10 years ago
You should really look into the works of Richard Stallman (RMS). He&#x27;s done a lot of work into showing and promoting free software as it empowers, rather than restricts the user as proprietary software does.<p><a href="https://stallman.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;</a>
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erkoseover 10 years ago
Free and open-source software is empowering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Free_and_open-source_software</a>
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