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I didn't find any of the arguments for optimism compelling, even if I wanted to agree with the talk's message. Free software is about the worst example, as it
by sporadicism 2mo ago
I didn't find any of the arguments for optimism compelling, even if I wanted to agree with the talk's message.
Free software is about the worst example, as it has inadvertently built the technology that has, more than any other, concentrated corporate power and debased the profession.
- skinfaxi 2mo ago> Free software is about the worst example, as it has inadvertently built the technology that has, more than any other, concentrated corporate power and debased the profession. Can you elaborate on this?
- nvme0n1p1 2mo agoWhat does your alternate timeline look like? Because I'm just imagining if Linux never took off, all internet servers would run Windows or a commercial Unix. That sure sounds like concentrated corporate power to me.
- senderista 2mo agoNah, if it hadn't been for the SCO lawsuit, BSD would have taken Linux's place. The main difference would have been that copyleft licenses probably wouldn't have gotten much traction.
- voakbasda 2mo agoOpen source did that. Free software would have helped prevent it.
- abetusk 2mo ago[0]: > If you refrain from participating in the software of the commons, the only thing that you're doing is surrendering more of our collective agency to abusive centralized powers. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4&t=1622s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4&t=1622s
- sporadicism 2mo agoYes, that is the argument from the video I was referencing.
- spit2wind 2mo agoFree software hasn't concentrated corporate power, explicit policy to enable monopolies did. Without free software, there would still have been consolidation because that was the express objective.