Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow you are way off time wise, I spoke of the 70’s and 80’s. Everything you mention is AFTER that.

  I meant the “peace with Russia” part by that, sorry.

  The Foss idea is early 80’s and EFF was created in the mid 80’s, and as I mentioned, based on the ideology of the 70’s.

  Meant that exactly, that (in my perception) there’s something similar in that ideology with science fiction of the same time, cinema, electronic music, industrial design and general techno-optimism. Some kind of universalism, like in Asimov’s Foundation.

  Unfortunately Putin completely ruined that after he came to power in 1991, which is also around the time Linux started.

  1999, 1991 is Yeltsin, but one is a logical continuation of the other (many Russian liberals disagree, love Yeltsin and hate Putin, don’t listen to them).

  The turnaround was after Carter when Reagan was elected, not just in USA, but also in most of Europe.

  Perhaps ; here I’m too ignorant.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1999, 1991 is Yeltsin,

    You are absolutely right, my bad on that one. But actually under Yeltsin there was still room for optimism, and in those years cooperation between the west and Russia increased.

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