[OT] Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Gilles,

On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Gilles <address@hidden> wrote:
> When people put convenience above all, they start giving up their freedom.

My experience — this thread being no different so far — is that such 
discussions always end up in absolutist terms (moral and otherwise). It’s 
almost a defining quality of the FLOSS movement, from what I can tell.

Ultimately, such positions are neither realistic, nor productive, nor 
particularly interesting to me (or many other people I know).

I don’t grow my own food, because buying my food — even the organic food I 
purchase regularly, in person, from farmers I know by name — is not only more 
convenient, but also cheaper and more freeing than growing, harvesting, and 
processing it myself. That freedom allows me to do other things that are more 
important to me, like composition, and using Lilypond to engrave my 
compositions, instead of heading out at 5AM to feed and milk my cows before the 
hard 16-hour day tending my subsistence crops.

I don’t put convenience above all; I make choices that make sense to me and 
those around me, in my real-world life.

Cheers,
Kieren.

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