It's so easy shitting on techbro VC nonsense that only separates us from our humanity to sell adspace. What actual problems do you want technology to solve?

  • TimeTravel_0
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    9 months ago

    free and open source software and open source hardware

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Yes, every chip and circuit completely open and transparent with published schematics.

      Having the source be open is a necessary but not sufficient condition of Free Software already, so there's no need to say "free and open source" since the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.

      • TimeTravel_0
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        9 months ago

        the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.

        wait really?

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          9 months ago

          Yes. Consider Android for a concrete example. Android is an Open Source project, but to build a completely working Android phone with all the features a user would expect from that requires a significant amount of nonFree Google software. Further, Android devices can be (and in fact usually are) sold in a condition which deliberately locks away the user's ability to examine and modify the code running on them.