Why is his point juvenile? I enjoyed the comparison. Going FOSS only/going vegan can be challenging and limiting, but is arguably the most ethical choice. In the abstract, I see many similarities between the FSF/Codeberg philosophy and vegan philosophy.
Yeah, as a vegan who shuns proprietary software, I think this is a great analogy.
It works regardless of which side you're on.
In both cases, GP would probably say "that's way too restrictive,"
but I'd say "get over it, some things are more important than convenience."
It's juvenile because the obvious implication is that making this choice is unnecessarily limiting, and only someone willing to cut off their nose to spite their face would do it. (Maybe my biases are showing, though, and I'm reading too much into that.)
Regardless, the analogy only runs skin-deep. There is precious little you have to "give up" if you stop using proprietary software. (Ok, ok, gaming probably takes a big hit, but that's about it.) If you become vegan, you give up the vast majority of dishes you might find in the diets of most cultures around the world. (You even lose quite a bit from cultures that are largely vegetarian.) And the alternatives are just not the same, at least not yet. For many pieces of software, the open source alternative is comparable, or even superior.
Someone trying to convince others that FOSS alternatives are just as good does sounds just like a vegan trying to convince meat eaters that vegan alternatives are just as good. Sure, in some cases it can be pretty decent, but it’s undeniable that it is similarly “unnecessarily” limiting. Ask main stream users if they prefer photoshop vs gimp, macOS vs Linux, foss video games vs Fortnite/COD/Minecraft, libera chat vs discord, mastodon vs twitter, etc etc.
