Post B1D09U6YD1T0JsfTM0 by m3tti@functional.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #B1CfMI4m912Vjz6QWO by m3tti@functional.cafe
       2025-12-13T10:37:20Z
       
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       Funny people build opensource to fix their problems and try out what you can do wit tech. Now corpo took that build upon it made stuff complicated so you have to have teams to manage the opensource stuff. And now they own 90% of all opensource stuff or are part of it and also tell you what you should do with it. Wasn't it all about empowering us?
       
 (DIR) Post #B1CtYt6zfeObRF2cRU by rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
       2025-12-13T13:23:35Z
       
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       @m3tti@functional.cafe...Wasn't it all about empowering us?It was when it was "Free Software.""Open Source" was always about wooing corporate dollars.And I'm not a big FSF fan, or anything, and I use the term "FOSS" mostly, which includes both terms.But starting nearly 30 years ago, the community started courting corporate interest and corporate dollars, and this is the end result.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1D09U6YD1T0JsfTM0 by m3tti@functional.cafe
       2025-12-13T13:42:25Z
       
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       @rl_dane thats indeed right. I hope that our industry will change in the future after we saw how much all this corpo shit destroyed our field imho. Its not about cool usefull tech anymore. Its just trying to make people dependent on some subscriptions and making it difficult to get into the field. React and co just made it really hard for newcommers and in the end it doesn't make anything simpler more relyable or easier to maintain.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1D09VTd6hWQZkTPxw by rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
       2025-12-13T14:37:26Z
       
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       @m3tti@functional.cafeThe funny thing is that the corpos giveth, and the corpos taketh away...I started playing with Fedora KDE this year, because I needed a solid newbie Linux distro suggestion for a family member this year.Fedora is the Linux distro that would've made me drool 20 years ago. It is almost as polished as Linux can possibly be. It's not a perfect newbie distro, but man, it's close.But on the other side of that same coin, you have IBM and their frequent shenanigans in the FOSS world.Even 20 years ago, you have IBM pouring tons of very valuable code into Linux, taking it from hobby project to absolute Enterprise-class Unix juggernaut in one decade.But... they're still IBM. They're still horrible and mercenary.¯\_(ツ)_/¯