[prodigal_erik]

The audience for this is ... us? I'm dismayed at the idea HN readers are voluntarily choosing this hostile platform for their own use, rather than merely holding their nose and developing for hapless consumers, while personally using a platform that likes hackers.

[tlrobinson]

I pick my battles carefully. I think actually working on making ther platforms better will do much more than choosing not to use a platform out of principle.

e.x. I believe if RMS were able to make free software more approachable / competitive with commercial software that would do much more for his cause than inventing silly names for DRM and alienating people.

Not that RMS hasn't done excellent work in the past, he has. But his current approach is awful.