Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Refusing To Use Windows For "Religious Reasons"" video.

@frog-girl-68000 Because the command is called grep, that's why. Of course I'm now considering cloning grep and naming the clone globally_search_for_a_regular_expression. Yeah, I hate dashes in filenames, underscores for life.
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@lawrencedoliveiro9104 It might not be unsupported or obsolete. If it was written for DOS and still works, DOSBox is a thing which works for nearly every DOS program and can be used on Linux. My mom worked at Dell before she retired and I got to see that they used a lot of old DOS software.
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@64_Tesseract Except that I'd give it extra functionality too. I'd include a switch whose sole purpose was to colorize every character of the output in random colors. It would be --yield_random_color_on_output and its short form would be -Y.
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@rkvkydqf Microsoft uses a format now that's similar to what LibreOffice uses. It's intentionally similar without being completely compatible because it is an antitrust issue. No one will ever sue them over this, and no prosecutor will ever take them to court. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to adapt to the differences, but I'd kind of like it if they didn't even try. I know that's an idealistic standpoint and not realistic from a business perspective, but I wish everyone would just give them the middle finger and exclusively use something free and/or open source.
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Who uses it would have nothing to do with an objection here, but rather who develops it. Someone else brought up the fact that MS and Apple donate to Planned Parenthood and a Christian might object to using anything they produce due to that connection. Of course, the majority of open source developers tend to be to the left on the political spectrum and thus are just as likely to donate to PP, but most of the time your use of their software won't benefit them as they don't get paid directly by their users, generally.
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@Winnetou17 Okay. That I can agree with then.
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@MOOBBreezy For me on Slackware, I've got a program called deb2tgz. I've used it a number of times and amazingly it's worked every time. If it hasn't been ported to Arch, might make for a fun project.
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This is the second time in a week that I've seen someone mention F#. I didn't think anyone seriously used it, for anything.
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Tracking is certainly a concern, but so is eavesdropping. I'm not sure if that's the right word for spying with a video camera when it's built into the corporate cell phone, but it at least fits if they only use the microphone, and either way it's highly unethical and depending on the laws where you live may even be illegal. And I agree that it's definitely not worth the risk.
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A lot of FOSS people take that point of view. I don't completely agree with it, but when you've got a piece of software that's existed for decades with merely incremental updates, at some point the price should come down and ideally approach zero. If our copyright terms were what our founding fathers wanted them to be then anything 28 years or older would no longer be under copyright. If we went with the initial term when copyright law was first drafted in 1791, then 14 years. I generally go with the 28 years when referring to the founding fathers here because they were all still around when they increased the term, but I'd actually prefer 14 for software.
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@Winnetou17 One question: What basic human rights are you referencing here?
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The sad thing is that people have to claim a religious exemption to retain their basic human rights of not being experimented on. The tragic thing is that it wasn't and still isn't an actual vaccine and when you analyze all the data you see that more people died due to the authorities handling of the situation than the actual virus. You also can see that nearly our entire medical establishment around the entire world is corrupt as they inflated the stats to receive more money and pushed people out of the job when they refused to comply with the corruption.
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If there is legitimate culture surrounding the internet it is kind of laughable the thought that a group might come together on the belief in cat memes or some other such nonsense. A narrow example I just thought of is if a company has a corporate dress code and a follower of cat memery requires that they wear a shirt with a cat meme printed on it. It would be a hilariously adorable clash of values.
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@dreamcat4 Actually, those could be religious things. Some religions consider idleness to be sinful and thus a standing desk would be superior to a sitting desk for such people. Something that was pointed out in another comment that I missed was certain corporations donate to organizations that certain religions abhor. Say MS donating funds to PP which a true Christian would certainly object to. With such an objection it would be valid to consider it religious to object to using Windows.
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@dreamcat4 The reason why I personally don't like such systems is that it leads to segregation. It's better, both for humanity in general, but also for individual groups if everyone comes together. To separate them by ideology is unhealthy for their psyche and creates echo chambers as well.
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@dreamcat4 For the most part I can agree with that. As to the last point I was making before, I would say that people shouldn't be sorted into different groups. It would be best for all if everyone was thought of as a cohesive unit, as the set of all employees. Such as for purposes of negotiating contract disputes. It shouldn't be group x for themselves and group y for themselves, it should be all together.
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A religion is a set of such deeply held beliefs that they border on not being personal at all. Consider that you may have a favorite color and yet if your boss asked you to wear a different color you would easily comply. Yet if your religion contains the belief that murder is wrong, something which most religions all have in common, then there's no way you would glibly murder someone if asked to do so by an employer. Of course, if you would so glibly murder someone and "your" religion contains the belief that it's wrong, then most would say you don't actually practice or follow that religion.
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@256shadesofgrey Interesting comparison, though I know of quite a few people, of various religions, whether Atheism or "Christianity" that unfortunately do think that murder is an acceptable thing. I use quotes there because anyone who actually follows/practices/whatever_nomenclature_you_wish_to_use that religion do indeed believe that murder is wrong. But there are people who claim that religion who not only consider murder acceptable but have actually done so themselves. As for religious exemptions being discrimination, I don't agree. Although, I wouldn't call the opposite discrimination either, even if the belief is so deeply held that they would object to using a particular piece of software because it was produced by a company that supports murder.
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How about OpenPLC or CodeSys? Have you tried either? Do they not work for you?
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I haven't taken a job where I've had to use Windows in many years, and my knowledge of how Windows works is woefully out of date. If we were talking about 32-bit Windows, as in the Win32 API, then sure, I could do it, but I've had the leeway to opt out of any job that requires Windows and have thusly rejected them all. I realize that's a luxury that most can't afford, but I'd love it if businesses would stop forcing employees to use a particular system. I know, legacy software and whatever weird new software that requires Windows, but they should push for more adoption of Linux and open source in general instead of acquiescing to the demands of their vendors. That's not to say that I'm against closed source, but I feel like it's only really acceptable in a vanishingly narrow range of uses. As for religion, I've seen some good points brought up by others in this comment section as to why that would be a valid argument against using Windows or software in general from any company that actively supports causes that are antithetical to their personal beliefs.
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Weird because I've noticed that behavior far more from emacs users. I would consider nano users to be the agnostics in this equation because they're not proud enough of their editor use to shout it from the rooftops and they don't care if you use anything at all.
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If you want strict adherence then do LFS and choose packages based on the beliefs of the various project maintainers.
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I'm not sure how you think Azure fits in here in any valid argument, but network shares are easily handled on Linux. I set up Samba on a server for Windows users to connect to and it was super easy, barely an inconvenience. The same was true when, as a Linux user, I had to use a Samba share. I've even set up a Samba share on a Raspberry Pi, that's how easy it is.
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@guiorgy If that merging requires merely appending documents to each other you can probably just use gs for that. If the merge method is more complicated than mere appending then yeah, that's a pain.
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