>>Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us
>Fusion360 or Photoshop
Not my Software not my Problem. Ask your country to support alternatives [1] for this kind of software. You're right that critical software is concentrated among a small group of providers. But an even bigger problem is that they're not open source and are sold under US laws (patents, licenses, restrictions etc..).
I'm aware of the merits of open source software and the idealism of living in a society where it is prominent.
We don't live in that society however. We live in a society where the people who build your house and the public facilities and the stores that you shop on are becoming increasingly locked into cloud based CAD and BIM software that is owned by monopolists who use the money they make to further entrench themselves.
This is your problem and no amount of spinning rust and ZFS is going to fix it.
>This is your problem and no amount of spinning rust and ZFS is going to fix it.
No it's not, i have not used and CAD-Stuff for 20 years, again don't support stuff you don't like.
The amount of money for Fusion360 to "build" my house is not 1 second of thinking worth...i just don't care, but hey you do! Make a change.
I also don't get it why you try to mix storage and proprietary-software, those are two different things.
The same argument (impossible to replace etc) was made for Microsoft-Office in ~2000, and now the whole French Police uses LibreOffice. If you want a change YOU have to change.
Exactly what i said. Don't give money to corporations who want to control your software.
https://www.fsf.org/about/
>>Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us
>Fusion360 or Photoshop
Not my Software not my Problem. Ask your country to support alternatives [1] for this kind of software. You're right that critical software is concentrated among a small group of providers. But an even bigger problem is that they're not open source and are sold under US laws (patents, licenses, restrictions etc..).
[1] https://www.sovereign.tech/