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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:42:38 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   My tech philosophy:

   Use #FOSS for any situation in which viable FOSS exists. Only use proprietary if none exists or do without.

   Use software adhering to https://openstandards.nz

   Local (in country) is better than off-shore, though this is somewhat price-sensitive.

   Social media:

   Open and decentralised (#Fediverse) first. Closed and centralised second, if at all.

   Governments around the world (especially in my corner of it) should adopt this philosophy with extreme prejudice.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:45:49 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @lightweight Though one viable reason to use proprietary software would be, say, if you've got a laptop you want to run Linux on but the drivers don't exist yet. So you use the proprietary software to reverse-engineer the hidden knowledge within, & write those necessary drivers!

     This isn't most of us, but full appreciation to those who do it...

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 01:15:58 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     • Adrian Cochrane

     @alcinnz yes, that's a special case. In the ideal world that I'm working towards, it'd be untenable for HW companies to create proprietary drivers.