[off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Ralf,

On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 09:47:26 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2023-06-03 at 06:25 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> > and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman  
> 
> The software market has changed significantly. In reality, some
> companies have recognized the gap in the market and are therefore
> adapting software to their customers' wishes and this for inexpensive
> software that you only have to pay for once. "The customer is always
> right." To date, in many areas there is no free software that meets
> professional standards, and even if it were, many free software
> developers are far worse than the proprietary software developers
> described by Mr. Stallman. We aren't living in the 80s or 90s anymore.
> Wake up!

Please see
https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/not-trust-non-FOSS/
. Morreover: 1] you can fork FOSS whose devs you dislike. 2] code that isn't
public tends to deteriorate innto a non-salvagable mess,.

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nonetheless.
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