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> All of our core service and software is locked up in a handful of companies. > For humanity and the future of software’s sake we need to go back to users of
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> All of our core service and software is locked up in a handful of companies.
> For humanity and the future of software’s sake we need to go back to users of software owning their software, preferably by being free and open source.
This sounds like a decent plan. Why not start executing the first step of it today?
- saulpw 2y agoWhat is the first step? Surely you can't mean the author using open source software (which they might already), or writing new open-source software like they envision? In the face of the societal changes they are talking about, one person will accomplish nothing. So the first step must be writing about it, trying to convince other people, or maybe developing their ideas so that instead of just a goal, they have a reasonable mechanism to get there. Or is that the actual first step to make a societal-level change? Maybe it's better to make millions of dollars under the existing regime, and then found or fund a think-tank to get certain politicians elected.
- bwock 2y agoRun for office, propose a bill. Do anything other than just sit here and complain about it on a forum.