| Part 4: My replies to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Vision Survey |
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 10:58:10 GMT |
| Activism |
I forgot to post this before. The final part - part 4 of the replies that I was trying to send in response to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Vision Survey.
Added to, edited, and reworded to some extent, with added HTML formatting and hyperlinks.
But, just thought I'd point them out.
I found this link via the wonderful Niteowl mailing list:
(Article from VanWinkles.com, Jan. 27, 2016.)
In November 2015, Apple upset many customers by removing the popular screen-tinting software f.lux from the App Store. (f.lux, unfortunately, is non-libre, but gratis.) Thousands of people (including me) signed a petition about that.
Finally, in January 2016, Apple announced a new Night Shift feature in iOS.
A blog post about that from MacRumors.com, Jan. 11, 2016:
It's terrible when people have hardly any options but to just beg and hope for a company to eventually get around to doing the right thing.
Which are yet more reasons why it's better to use free (as in freedom), libre software and hardware.
(Quoted from survey:) Are there any social movements or organizations you would be excited to see us collaborate more with? (End of quote.)
That's a little progress, at least. But how typical of an uncaring big corporation to arbitrarily suppress an already existing program which helped many people.