• voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    FOSS isn’t about “corpo hate”. It’s about freedom. There’s a philosophy behind it. You can, of course, disagree with it, but I think you should know what you’re disagreeing with.

    If the users don’t control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the developer or “owner” of the program, that controls the program—and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

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      1 year ago

      I’m talking about the community. A large part of the community absolutely is about gate-keeping and hating on corporations… and now devs too apparently.

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        A large part of the community absolutely is about gate-keeping and hating on corporations

        I haven’t seen that at all. Hate doesn’t bring you far.

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          I have and it’s good and cool.

          Well maybe not gatekeeping. But hating corporations…