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· Föderation EN Mo 03.03.2025 17:35:47

@tante

I'd like to mention that the "Open Source" verbiage was a soft-peddling of "Free Software" ideals to corporations from day one (mid-to-late 1990s, IIRC).

What we call #FOSS today was originally for hackers by hackers. Now corporations and deep pockets are involved because it's not "cool" to have linux machine that can't print or run AAA games.

I like printing, and... I'm quite ambivalent towards AAA games, but I like having an OS that runs well.

But we seriously lost something along the way.

P.S., I do not mean to say that the "soft peddling" wasn't done with the very best of intentions. But it is what it is.