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96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

FOSS software will win eventually. It may take time, but if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts then a time will come where proprietary software fucks up. And when it does, FOSS is ready to take it’s place. And as soon as FOSS has become a standard in some field, why would there ever be a need to go back to proprietary?

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hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Maybe. I thought and fought for this from the 1990s on my own small ways with no luck and only to see the rise and rise of walled garden, proprietary, bullshit software.

The issue is end users have the prescience of a gold fish, i have zero solutions to that.

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futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts

LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.

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- 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.
  
  That’s a fair point. I would also be very much in favor of governments subsidizing certain FOSS projects. There’s a lot of work to be done, and people certainly deserve to be paid for it too.
  
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