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> Wanting openness in everyday tech isn't "absolutist" in itself. But the article's tone (and a lot of the FOSS movement's rhetoric) frames it as failure rathe
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> Wanting openness in everyday tech isn't "absolutist" in itself. But the article's tone (and a lot of the FOSS movement's rhetoric) frames it as failure rather than frontier.
It is a failure. Things have been moving away from openness. A frontier would move toward it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko
- NetMageSCW 1y agoThat’s predicated on the assumption that FOSS is preferable to the alternative- maybe it isn’t.