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Sure - anyone is capable of doing something bad in the future. But, it is utterly dishonest to claim they are doing it now if you have no evidence.

If it is controlled by corporate interests, it is not free.

No it isn’t. The direction of development is controlled by the need for funding.

I agree that submitting bug reports or patches is an important contribution. I don’t see how that relates to market share, since regular users won’t do that.

It’s not really ‘free’ if it has to produce ad revenue.

For clarification - if you either contribute code or money to Firefox, you are clearly supporting the existence of a free browser. I don’t see how just using it does. So if you are…

> the fact that Twitter is a customer service channel This is circular reasoning. Nowhere is it established that Twitter is a customer service channel. Other parts of your in your …

What makes you think a customer service rep is operating the official Twitter account for a $40+BN company?

> I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing. Why? Are you considering forking Firefox?

When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs. Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28

Perhaps the client is an ‘American Jedi’. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5...

Very true. My point was that you don’t have to use ticketing as a control mechanism - you can use it however you like and it doesn’t imply distrust. Similarly you can have an overb…

It’s not as simple as that. ‘Talking’ doesn’t create a reference where you can see what’s been done yet, and of course people leave teams or get sick etc. so there are many reasons…

> which makes it difficult to learn how to hack This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s true that you can’t rebuild the kernel or os services, or modify the system very much a…

It has more features, reviews generally indicate improvements, and consumers are choosing it. Anyone claiming that it is getting worse is making an extraordinary claim that needs d…

> When your business partners are world governments, unfortunately mass suffering is the table stakes. You haven’t mentioned any suffering Apple is causing. If you mean to say anyo…

> Working to manage it seems to be the best alternative. Yeah - I tend to agree.

You don’t need to explain, but I am actually interested. I don’t see it as hair splitting. My point is that Trump may not be president now, and it seems you see that as a binary. H…

“Incredible human suffering”? This doesn’t seem like a serious comment.

That doesn’t make sense. Saying the FBI should be defunded is explicitly speculating about what hasn’t happened yet.