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FOSS has impoverished generations of programmers. As originally championed by Stallman & others in the 80's, its scope was foundational & infra-structural codeb
by FilosofumRex 1y ago
FOSS has impoverished generations of programmers. As originally championed by Stallman & others in the 80's, its scope was foundational & infra-structural codebases, ie. OS, firmware, compilers, databases, and later browses etc. Anything that would bind you to a vendor and inevitably to the Deep State.
He was a visionary and we must all give credit where it's due. However, FOSS, as applied to apps, games & tools is nothing more than tech slavery, which is why nowadays it's championed by FANNG and the Deep State (some countries like Israel and India commercialize FOSS source codes as a matter of statecraft).
As for Stallman, he now, muses about https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
- Tabular-Iceberg 1y agoI’m not disagreeing with you on the eventual outcome, but what makes you think Stallman and his cronies ever intended to limit the scope of the Free Software movement to foundational software? The only limit in scope I’ve heard about is “devices intended for installing software”.