I can't believe I am reading garbage like this on a forum called "Hacker News." Richard Stallman literally started the Free Software movement because the driver to the Xerox 9700 laster printer was closed source. Please read Steven Levy's Hackers and Sam William's Free as in Freedom. Asking "why care whether the driver is open source" to me as a hacker is like asking "why care whether you are a slave?"
I can't believe I am reading garbage like this on a forum called "Hacker News." Richard Stallman literally started the Free Software movement because the driver to the Xerox 9700 laster printer was closed source. Please read Steven Levy's Hackers and Sam William's Free as in Freedom. Asking "why care whether the driver is open source" to me as a hacker is like asking "why care whether you are a slave?"