just-because-youre-right-doesnt-mean-it-matters.md (1093B)
1 # Just because you're right doesn't mean it matters 2 3 - Free software 4 - yes, proprietary software will generally become crap, no that doesn't mean free software is necessarily the correct course of action 5 - Yes, package managers will always be supply chain attack vectors, no it doesn't mean we definitively shouldn't use them 6 - This is just a consequence of them, not something that obviates their entire value prop 7 8 basically, it is super easy to predict something bad will happen in the future. This doesn't mean the bad thing you predicted matters, and frequently predictions about bad things happening are outweighed by the positive short term benefits. The specifics of this are variable, and I do think free software is better than proprietary software, but it's not that useful to say stallman was right because of course he would be! Of course some prop software will become bad, this is super obvious to me. What's less obvious is his overall correctness, which I agree with, but is a bit more nuanced than a simple stallman was right because muh pdf viewer is crap now.