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   by akagusu 6y ago

   IBM bought RedHat to control the second most important piece of software that makes part of major Linux distributions.
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   by akagusu 6y ago

   The immediate effect of such measure is the increase of people's mobility and the consequential economic boost. The side effect is the increase of segregation and inequality. Of course, people whose benefit from a covid passport don&#x
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   by akagusu 6y ago

   But this is what this letter is all about. They are not targeting RMS but the whole Free Software Movement. A lot of companies supporting this letter make millions with proprietary software, privacy invasion, user manipulation and planned o
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   by akagusu 6y ago

   Not just Stallman, but OSI was founded with an ideological goal too. It's goal is to strip ethics from software development and focus solely on technical and economical output for companies while Stallman and FSF had focused exactly on
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   by akagusu 6y ago

   The lack of ethics is what poisons the relationship between big tech companies and open source software and OSI was founded exactly for that, to strip the ethical principles of free/libre software and focus solely on technical and econ
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   by akagusu 6y ago

   Let's frame this correctly. Big companies usually offer for free any software that is aimed to bring people into their ecosystem to sell people software that makes hard for people to leave their ecosystem. Said that, Verona is a new la