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On the surface it is surprising that the 1990/2000s (often ex-hippie) free software writers or entrepreneurs got so greedy. The worst people are those who figh
by kalkfha 2y ago
On the surface it is surprising that the 1990/2000s (often ex-hippie) free software writers or entrepreneurs got so greedy.
The worst people are those who fight over the control of old free software projects, usually using DEI as a shield to a) establish a tyranny b) silence all opposition and c) secure their $250,000 jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft since they now have gotten rid of vast amounts of competition while pretending that they want to "grow the team".
This kind of behavior is not limited to software though. It was the Hippies of 1970 who slowly grew more powerful, and in the 1980s/1990s sold out entire manufacturing economies to Asia and Eastern Europe while pretending that The West is now a knowledge economy. And they got rich in the process of dumping IP while at the same time destroying local workers' livelihoods by replacing them with cheaper immigrants.
- malfist 2y agoThat's quite the DEI bogeyman you have there. Can you provide an example where someone, using DEI, took over an open source project, ruled tyannicly, ended people's rights to speech and then used that to get a 250k job at Google, Facebook or Microsoft?
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoSealioning is so five years ago. Come up with a new tactic, this one is dead.
- kombookcha 2y ago>asking about specifics is a sign that you're a bad faith actor "Only maximally fuzzy claims that align with my vibes are allowed, facts are for haters" Definitely a good sign when your model of the world cannot be allowed to ever touch actual reality. Or grass.
- spacemadness 2y agoDEI? This reads like someone who wakes up in the morning mad about DEI and trying to force it into every argument on the internet to “own the libs.” It makes zero sense here.