Sorry, I'm a bit nervous. So my comments might be a bit cranky.
Point is it's not bad to get info even from 10mo ago, we have usefult text from 70s, 80s etc.
Why I made this post is because of a rule here of no memese. The point was to start a discussion about realtionship big tech have with FOSS community. Hence the meme in the first comment. Rules don't approve memese so I posted some video about FOSS funding to post a meme as a first comment.
from where ? I made it lol, idk if it was shared somewhere else before
edit: thought you were referencing the meme, not the video, sry anyway, why does it matter that 10months old ?
edit2: foss funding is broken still
Just to clarify, this post is not meant to glorify startups! Startups also have CEO and it’s same as first line in the meme.
This post is meant to start a discussion and to highlight the effects big tech having on FOSS.
It’s aginst big tech not aginst FOSS!
Just to clarify, this post is not meant to glorify startups! Startups also have CEO and it’s same as first line in the meme.
This post is meant to start a discussion and to highlight the effects big tech having on FOSS.
It’s aginst big tech not aginst FOSS!
Ah crap, didn't see that. Anyways don't see why not, but whatever. Mods can delete it. This was to start a discussion about big tech and foss realtionship.
How is it glorifying anything of this ?
It's not saying FOSS is a confused mess, but that big tech exploits foss! And yes FOSS can and is making progress without big thech. But big tech is big investor in foss which means it's controlling it and striving to controll it, for example threads and mastodon.
No company will invest money for anything that is not helping their cause. FOSS isn't untouchable to be exempted from critique.
effects on big tech exploiting foss, for example threads and fediverse
For example email,now it's very dificult to self host email and not get caught with spam filter dictated by big tech. Entire internet really, before we had personal websites, community forums then reddit came and take over the forums making profit of off it. There are many examples. It is true that this techno landscape now is mirror image of relations we have in our society, rich getting richer and exploint poorer, in most banal sense. In linux they put/or are putting in subscription system to unlock cpu cores only if you pay, even when you bought processor.
Look around more and you can find a lot of other examples, one more is EEE(embrace, extend, extinguis) of xmpp.
People seem to appreciate companies very much, even getting glad that "great meta is using activitypub with threads and we are all gonna be happy", in reality we won't. They will just co-opt fediverse and EEE it.
Me personally am on most FOSS hardvare and software I can be on this moment. If I find time to make feaseble to use more FOSS stuff and get away from all the corpos I will do that for sure. But only me, and small ammount of people going that way is not the solution. It has to be mass movement to ditch the corpos once and for all.