You have to choose between either destroying all free software or all proprietary software...

You have to choose between either destroying all free software or all proprietary software, wiping either from existence.

What do you choose and why?
What will the consequences of your choice be?

destroy the free software, literally nothing would change

This, proprietary software is of higher quality and standards because money is a great motivator.

>What do you choose and why?
Why not both? And hardware too, with all their blueprints, documentation and production pipelines.
>What will the consequences of your choice be?
Watch as grandpa topples the gubberment by changing an 1 to a 0.

You wish.

Free doesn't mean gratis, idiot.
Just look at RedHat.

less and garbager software as tools to made them are too few and expesnive, no usenet, vastly less websites if any at all and email usage, no irc, no torrents, no cheap smartphones and expensive ones will run shitty iOS and Win Mobi ...

Except there would be no internet to shitpost on.

>t. retard

most of the internet would stop working

this because we may legally recreate all of the free software without violating any licenses

why the fuck is tux rolling penguin skin up his arm to reveal human skin?

Software was a mistake. Its nothing but trash.

Nice reference

Destroy proprietary software. A lot of good shit would disappear, but you'd still have a strong base that's open for everyone to build upon.
Destroying all free software would mean that anyone that doesn't own rights to something would have to start from zero.

Because there's actual humanity behind FLOSS software, unlike proprietary.

huh

destroy all proprietary software
nothing of knowledge would be lost.

if all free software was destroyed we'd lose decades of knowledge and progression.

most programs would be easily rebuilt either proprietary or non.. but only in the case that freesoftware is still alive and the knowledge+progression gained is still there

Destroy proprietary
We would have guided St. Sophia home by now

>needing to scam support
The problem the freetard philosophy leaves is the same one the pharmaceutical industry has. You don't have an incentive to cure the patient, only manage their symptoms. You can't extract any money from perfect software, so you have to make it full of problems in order to then sell the solution.
With proprietary software, the better it is, the more it's worth.

You don't know penguins have feathers?
Freetards, people.

Free software is free because there's nothing of value in it.

Still, feathers don't roll up like sleeves

>money
Yeah that whole concept is/was flawed
Even jebus knew it
But then the church came

They do come off though.

looks cold

the only genre of proprietary software that's better than free software is in media, photoshop, adobe, video editing (not rendering) and that's it

>le support meem
Self-support is free only if your hourly rate is zero

Also fucking legacy systems, Timmy

That's the other side of free software. "If you don't like it, just fork it!"
Proprietary software is looking out for the consumer. The support is built-in.

Free software, it'll be a high price to pay but archfags will get their day of rope

>Proprietary software is looking out for the consumer. The support is built-in.
Not at all. Just like free software vendors exist with excellent support, proprietary vendors exist who give the customer a nice bit cup of Go Fuck Yourself with a Rusty Chainsaw (tm)

This
Customer support:
>Oh so your problem is you bought a license for a product you can't use because we pushed an upgrade and our official sellers told you everything is going to be fine; but computer says no. Yeah that's your problem RTFTERMSOFAGREEMENTANDOURDEVELOPERSBLOG