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permissive licenses allowed turning a social movement into unpaid labor for FAANGs. Instead of providing libre computing all the way to the end users, many dev
by throwaway092835 6y ago
permissive licenses allowed turning a social movement into unpaid labor for FAANGs.
Instead of providing libre computing all the way to the end users, many developers are writing unpaid applications and libraries that will be locked down into some devices or SaaS.
> I realized libre movement is a mirage....
No, the mirage is to think that we either fix the whole world in two decades or the fight is lost.
> you cannot change the capitalist forces by writing a bunch of software
Every single bit counts and makes a shift.
- shp0ngle 6y ago> No, the mirage is to think that we either fix the whole world in two decades or the fight is lost. Two decades? The "year of Linux desktop" meme is older than that. GNU was created 1984. It's 34 years old now. Software in 1984 was wildly different than now. But while free software is now more available than back then, it's not really much help to the world at large, is it.