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Yes, it's big tech to blame, but for different reasons: FLOSS works for PERSONAL computers, meaning the desktop model, witch it BTW the best computing model we
by kkfx 3y ago
Yes, it's big tech to blame, but for different reasons: FLOSS works for PERSONAL computers, meaning the desktop model, witch it BTW the best computing model we have so far. FLOSS does not work on modernized mainframe model, where the mainframe is someone else computer or "the cloud".
People do not know how to go FLOSS because they do not know how to work on desktops. Even if we have IPv6 since decades, so we can potentially have a classic internet, with a global address per device, a family domain names with personal subdomains etc, people do not know how to use them, ISPs do their best to obstacle such deployments. As a result people start to trying copy big tech, with open platforms and fails because they can't be usable with profit at smaller scales.
Not only, we have to interact with the rest of the world that have largely forgotten the Desktop, now an "endpoint", or a modern dumb terminal, making things even harder.
That's the FLOSS problem: the fact that Big Tech have won against the classic tech, stealing classic ideas only when they discovered how to make such ideas anti-users, an a success at a time, now IT is anti-user almost at a whole.
Oh, that's not a special FLOSS problem, is a social problem, because with the actual trend we can only evolve in neo-feudal dictatorships.