I hate antichrist meme template.

two people wearing helmets with logos of big corporations are raiding a house. The text below them reads, “we’ve got you surrounded, use our dis-services”.

the person whose house is being raided is hiding, holding a gun with logos of GNU, Linux, Lineageos, Firefox, and Lemmy. The text above him says, “I hate corporations, I hate crony-capitalism.”

  • @Axiochus@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    Hmmm, I’m increasingly wary of FOSS software as well. It’s part of the system and can be bought up. Not sure about the alternatives to it, though. I guess highly technical people with lots of free time can just self-host and compile, but that’s a minority.

    • lemmyreader
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      1 year ago

      Hmmm, I’m increasingly wary of FOSS software as well.

      Depends on the license a project uses. GPL should be fine to prevent corporate exploitation.

      https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/

      The Software Freedom Conservancy lawsuit alleges that Vizio’s TV products, built on its SmartCast system, contain software that Vizio unfairly appropriated from a community of developers who intended consumers to have very specific rights to modify, improve, share, and reinstall modified versions of the software.

      According to the lawsuit, a consumer of a product such as this has the right to access the source code so that it can be modified, studied, and redistributed (under the appropriate license conditions).

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      1 year ago

      we just really need a handful of highly technical people with free time to host lemmy for all of us :)

      its okay if they are a minority, we can all benefit