Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

    • @axsyse@lemmy.sdf.org7•9 months ago

      It wouldn't necessarily collapse (it wasn't exactly suffering before FOSS stuff "hit the shelves", so to speak) but the gatekeeping that comes with it would certainly cause a tremendous amount of stagnation

          • fox [comrade/them]34•9 months ago

            Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

        • @axsyse@lemmy.sdf.org3•9 months ago

          I do too. To be clear, I did NOT mean that we could go without it today. What I meant was that if we didn't have it to start with, things would've likely still developed albeit much more slowly.

          I'll also preface this by saying I definitely slightly misread everything before and so my reply was kinda crappy

          • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]7•9 months ago

            What I meant was that if we didn't have it to start with, things would've likely still developed albeit much more slowly.

            I dont think we will ever know, but Im not sure I agree. I dont know what the landscape would look like without relying on open source and patent theft. A lot of the stuff would probably not be financially viable.