In the eyes of an extreme freetard, playing an old DOS or NES game is no different than using Windows 11, Discord, or Google Chrome.

@xianc78 i've seen people like this get really angry when I talk about running DOS on a PC-98 or 486 era PC because even though it's the OS it ran, it's proprietary and none of them understand the point of using an old computer for games.

@PurpCat Nah bro, you should only play free software games like Tux Racer. Proprietary games, including games released for old platforms keep you isolated and helpless.

@xianc78 @PurpCat I bet even fully reverse engineered games are a step to far for freetard purists too.
They forget that older hardware/software typically wasn't really capable of the same sort of spying/telemetry that more modern stuff is- and freetardism on that front is more for ease of modification than muh security.
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>They forget that older hardware/software typically wasn't really capable of the same sort of spying/telemetry that more modern stuff is

You should see all the old FSF interviews and documentaries from around that time. There main talking point was "sharing is caring". Like I'm not a big fan of intellectual property either, but I don't think that sharing copies is the most important thing in the world.

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@xianc78 @RK7 Spying/telemetry wasn't a thing (outside of stuff like NSAKey, the Clipper chip and NSA forcing weaker crypto, etc) to the extent it was today until Edward Snowden's leaks, followed by Windows 10's telemetry and the rise in warrants/arrests from tech companies snitching on users.

That's when everyone began to get worried. Especially as the big impact of Edward Snowden's leaks wasn't that people began to give a shit about online privacy (of course they didn't), but tech companies began to start things like using HTTPS everywhere and forcing the web onto it, as in the pre-Snowden era you could still browse most of the web in HTTP.

But stuff like MS-DOS was a pain to get internet/networking in (TSRs and drivers anyone?), and even now the servers that any old software would phone into are probably long since shut down mostly.

@PurpCat @RK7 I know that, but the whole "sharing is caring" thing is probably why nobody outside of (Anti-Capitalists and Austrio-Libertarians) gave a shit about FOSS until the Snowden leaks.

@xianc78 @PurpCat @RK7 GNU/JIHAD AGAINST "FOSS" AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF PROPRIETARY DEGENERACY!!!!!!!

FREE SOFTWARE.
@PurpCat @xianc78 People really do forget the FSF basically was birthed into existence purely by the eternal fact of printers being shitty and a frustrated nerd being pissed he couldn't fix the driver.
@RK7 @PurpCat @xianc78 It was made because he could fix the printer software and someone had the source code to fix it, but that person refused to provide it, as he had betrayed humanity by signing a NDA to not do so.

This was the time before copyright applied to software, thus if you had the source code, you had the 4 freedoms.
@xianc78 @RK7 @PurpCat Imaginary property does not exist; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

The most important things in the world are freedom, community and sharing.
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