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Open source is only thriving behind the scenes and end users are getting more proprietary and less free software than decades ago as we move to cloud software.
by flukus 7y ago
Open source is only thriving behind the scenes and end users are getting more proprietary and less free software than decades ago as we move to cloud software. Having source code might not be much for end users, but they've got a lot better chance at doing something with that than they do a cloud service using LLVM behind the scenes, at least they'd have their own data.
Open source is increasingly become something for software developers only, as Stallman warned us.
- cnst 7y agoIt's really scary how much the cloud is taking away from us. It's not even standardised in any way, little interoperability to export data etc. All magic and things.
- Arnt 7y agoYou may be right. But I looked at the recent gnu thing ("joint statement") and gnu software is guix (OS distribution), guile (programming language), social (vapourware afaict), mpc (library), hurd (os kernel), libc (library)... it goes on like that. Most of those are targeted purely at developers. An OS distribution might be for others, but Guix' homepage describes it as having "declarative system configuration for transparent and reproducible operating systems" that "provides Guile Scheme APIs". My neighbours would turn away in an instant. So gnu too is increasingly becoming something for developers, unless the signatories there are seriously unrepresentative.