Omni (omni)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Dec-12 15:07:51 UTC
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@redenchilada I'm not saying everyone does, that is simply not true and I thoroughly agree that a lot of people are just abusing fear to give their point more strength there. There are enough companies that do, though. They most likely won't be using it to put you in jail, but to collect information about you which is quite valuable to advertisers and governments. Besides that, Free software has a practical reason for me: If a program is great, except from one tiny thing, I can fix that myself. I did this to Hotot, which was a nice StatusNet client (albeit buggy), but which only supported a 140 character limit. Because it was Free software, I could go into the code and edit that limit to 1000 characters myself, making it a lot more suitable for RDN, without breaking any laws. Besides that, free software has often proven to be safer, because companies can't get away with leaving security holes in it for years when they are aware of it until someone actively abuses it.
