@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ But how can possibly a [FOSS](foss.md) program be abusive? Let's mention a few e
- **Obscurity may be used to successfully hide malicious features even withing publicly accessible code**. {TODO: examples. ~drummyfish}
- **Introducing dangerous dependencies**: for example a fully free software may be unnecessarily designed as [cloud](cloud.md) software which increases the risk of its non functionality e.g. in cases of Internet blackouts (or just any loss of connection).
- **Licenses can by bypassed**, e.g. [copyleft](copyleft.md) was legally eliminated by [Google](google.md)'s [Android](android.md) which is based on copylefted [Linux](linux.md): their proprietary Play Store is a 3rd party program to which the copyleft doesn't apply but which is essential for Android and serves to control Android (which should have been prevented by the copyleft).
- Setting up a **discriminatory, fascist and toxic development environment**, e.g. in the form of [codes of conduct](coc.md)s. This allows to bully and "cancel" developers who are, for whatever reason, unwelcome.
The essential issue of capitalist software is in its goal: profit. This goal goes before and eventually against goals such as helping and respecting the users. A free license is a mere obstacle on the way towards this goal, an obstacle that may for a while slow down corporation from abusing the users, but which will eventually be overcome just by the sheer power of the market environment which works on the principles of Darwinian evolution: those who make most profit, by any way, survive and thrive.
Miloslav Ciz
3 years ago