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> they want other people's content to be available on the open web (not just their own content). It’s precisely because of that the biggest corps of the curren
by fractalb 6y ago
> they want other people's content to be available on the open web (not just their own content).
It’s precisely because of that the biggest corps of the current day came into existence. Is it even possible for Google, Amazon, Facebook to become this big without the free software that was available on the web?
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- mulmen 6y agoCould free software exist without closed hardware and software? Was anything created in an ideologically pure vacuum?
- anonymou2 6y agoOriginally all software was free, it just wasn't called that because there was no closed software. It was shared like cooking recipes.
- raxxorrax 6y agoFacebooks success wasn't certain, but it did happen. You can start a better social network now, but success is far less likely than that of Facebook was previously.