Comment by pessimizer

This just seems like a lot of random sentences strung together. What Stallman says is very clear and very simple. You're also free to work on Free Software any time that you want, and free to make sure the devices in your life adhere to Free Software principles. That has nothing to do with OSS, other than OSS makes itself as available to copyleft as it is to copyright.

I'm trying to figure out who this rant is aimed at: is it complaining that people trying to get corporate jobs writing software are writing software for corporations who are using Open Source, and claiming that's some sort of contradiction that needs to be escaped? It's easy to escape. Be poor. Lots of people do it. But if that's not an option for you, writing OSS at a corporate job is no worse that writing proprietary software at a corporate job.

Are you working for scammers? Almost everybody else is too! You should quit, if you're independently wealthy (i.e. invested in scammers), or don't mind being poor. But working on OSS at your scammer job isn't any worse than writing proprietary code at your scammer job. So I don't get it.

Anybody think they've successfully translated this?

edit: also, I think a lot of people need to face that fact that a ton of OSS isn't even useful for anybody but large-scale corporations. It was written by them (or people wanting to be them), for them. Can't see anything wrong with that.