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• in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Open source built the web

  Yeah and how’s that working out, in the context of the subject of this thread.

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  • stressballs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Open source didn’t crumble under the weight of inevitability. It fell apart because corporate interests profiting off of it decided it was more profitable to create cultures antithetical to the guardrails that open source presents to exploitation and co-option.

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    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      A las, capitalism wins again. I don’t like it, but it’s a fact.

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      • stressballs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It was pruned. It will grow back. It’s growing back now. There will be an Internet post American dominance and it will use open source.

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