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When I said I advise friends to stop depending on corpotech, I am not telling them to quit their jobs unless they are independently wealthy. I am telling them t
by lrvick 2mo ago
When I said I advise friends to stop depending on corpotech, I am not telling them to quit their jobs unless they are independently wealthy. I am telling them to quit also using or relying on corpotech in their personal lives, favoring instead FOSS sovereign tech to take back some control, The dream then is hopefully _also_ finding a technology job that also furthers FOSS sovereign tech or otherwise makes the world less shitty.
- johnnyanmac 2mo agoThat's fair. I'm all for taking control of your tools in life. I try to strive towards this myself. >The dream then is hopefully _also_ finding a technology job that also furthers FOSS sovereign tech or otherwise makes the world less shitty. Would be nice. But emphasis on "dream". Finding anything right now is rough, so finding a FOSS that can fund your career that isn't one of the FAANG to begin with is truly a moonshot.
- lrvick 2mo agoI struggled to find a decent job that would let me build FOSS to the depth and quality level I want. But when the job you want does not exist, then sometimes the answer is creating that job. I started a FOSS linux distro, stagex, and co-founded a convenience-tax model FOSS PaaS based on it, Caution, which is in the current YC batch. Several customers already with more onboarding that are making early profitability very likely. Hoping to lead by example on this one building a profitable company on 100% FOSS and maybe more are encouraged to follow. That is -my- dream and solution. We will see what happens!