nowindows
4 days ago
- #Proprietary Software
- #Microsoft
- #Free Software
- The GNU General Public License allows porting software to Windows, but the author discourages it.
- Windows is a proprietary environment that limits user freedoms, and supporting it encourages such limitations.
- Porting software to Windows may keep users on Windows longer, which benefits Microsoft and harms user freedom.
- The author develops software on free platforms to avoid supporting proprietary systems like Windows.
- Porting software to other proprietary systems (e.g., Solaris) is also discouraged for similar reasons.
- The author refuses to optimize software for proprietary development platforms like Visual C++ to avoid supporting them.