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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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