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Because politicians care about farmers. It's a perfect proxy to fight for software freedom and Right-to-repair, because it mobilizes legislators from nebraska
by celestialcheese 4y ago
Because politicians care about farmers.
It's a perfect proxy to fight for software freedom and Right-to-repair, because it mobilizes legislators from nebraska and other non-technical folks to speak up about issues that us programmers and techies have been harping about for decades.
- tengbretson 4y agoProgrammers have been enriching themselves for years by creating the tools and infrastructure upon which the massive shift from CAPEX to subscription-based economics has been built and now they want to speak up? I don't want to hear it.
- celestialcheese 4y agoProgrammers did this? From my experience, programmers hate this industry shift to "rented" software, and it's the MBAs that have pushed this on us as they've infiltrated the C-suite over the last decade+.
- snovv_crash 4y agoProgrammers are also the only group who has been creating an ecosystem of completely free tools that anyone can use or modify for themselves with zero restrictions. Software has zero production costs and this enables all sorts of uses, moral and not.
- AlexandrB 4y agoCue a thread about how VSCode is a Trojan horse but nobody wants to stop using it because it's just so damn convenient. Edit: Or a thread about how users in western countries should not be allowed to run TikTok on their own devices because: China.