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FOSS is from another era. Back then Microsoft were the bad guys and FOSS was largely a response to their hegemony. Ubuntu bug #1 was "Microsoft has a majority m

FOSS is from another era. Back then Microsoft were the bad guys and FOSS was largely a response to their hegemony. Ubuntu bug #1 was "Microsoft has a majority market share" and it is kind of resolved now but increasingly irrelevant. Now it is a different kind of challenge. True, if you are a geek, you can use open-source software to cobble together some resemblance of popular cloud services but under your own control. There are even detailed guides on how to do it (see also: https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign). But that's a lot of nuisance and in the end what you get is an inferior version.

CaptSpify 11y ago
> Now it is a different kind of challenge. Howso? I don't see it as any different, but instead of Microsoft, there are multiple organizations. > FOSS is from another era. I'm not sure what you mean by this. FOSS is still current, and quite active today. In fact, I'd say even moreso. > But that's a lot of nuisance and in the end what you get is an inferior version. I agree. That's what I do now, but it's not nearly as good. But what I was implying was that we have the potential to create a much better version, that's trustworthy.