Yeah >_>; I wasn't criticizing you for not using or believing in free software of something ... I was asking it about Mark and Canonical / Ubuntu.
I personally encountered insensitivity in GNOME (including a depressive episode after something a Red Hat employee said at a conference), but Ubuntu ... dear goddess. Geek Feminism's wiki needs to have an article for every time a certain former community manager posted about "community" or "respect," and that's just for starters.
I think mjg59 said it best when he pointed out that Linux legally gives you the freedom to make arbitrary changes to your setup, but that's not the same thing as actually being free. And I think the people with God complexes, like you mention, are that way because of the power that FOSS lets them hold over others. As petty as it may sometimes be.
(Out of curiosity, what do you use on your phone if not Android or presumably iOS? I switched to using a Windows Phone and I love it, but Microsoft can be really fickle and seems determined to be at least as creepy as Ubuntu. With the way it gathers information and stuff in Windows 10.)
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Re: Would like some help picking those toys up?
Date: 2015-11-22 02:16 pm (UTC)I personally encountered insensitivity in GNOME (including a depressive episode after something a Red Hat employee said at a conference), but Ubuntu ... dear goddess. Geek Feminism's wiki needs to have an article for every time a certain former community manager posted about "community" or "respect," and that's just for starters.
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(Out of curiosity, what do you use on your phone if not Android or presumably iOS? I switched to using a Windows Phone and I love it, but Microsoft can be really fickle and seems determined to be at least as creepy as Ubuntu. With the way it gathers information and stuff in Windows 10.)