ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 on Nostr: OFC, not all libre/free open source software has an ethical component nor developers. ...
OFC, not all libre/free open source software has an ethical component nor developers.
If anything those with good intentions have been largely undermined by the for-profit sector.
e.g. Microsoft gladly takes code for free from OpenBSD (e.g. Services for Unix) yet their official OpenSSH fork is many many months behind upstream.
Apple, Alphabet/Inc. Google, similarly lag months, sometimes years behind their upstream projects. To say nothing of the unethical privacy invasions and advertising models which one of those in particular uses.
IBM, old enough to have sold computers to veritable WWII era Nazis, has subsumed RedHat, so if you want OpenSSH packages that are years behind upstream, you're set! They don't even bother to try to make the modest OpenBSD Foundation fundraising goal milestones of Google/Alphabet Inc.'s "Iridium" support tier.
Of course, nothing is stopping anyone from just running OpenBSD, or their own libre/free open source OS of choice these days.
Want Asahi Linux on your new M2 Mac? It can be done I guess? Though I'm not sure what the results were of that "should we make telemetry (aka spyware) opt in or opt out" the poll results looked distressing.
Libre/free open source hardware is picking up momentum. More RISC-V SBCs, tablets and purportedly even laptops are beginning to enter the market.
Headlines about Apple relying on Qualcomm for modems for their next iPhone were tinged with mention that Qualcomm is pursuing RISC-V for future designs, following in the foot steps of Western Digital, NVIDIA/Mellanox et al.
So, maybe there are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic?
But beware of pitfalls such as OpenSPARC, OpenPOWER, etc.
There is hella sourcewashing. :-/
If anything those with good intentions have been largely undermined by the for-profit sector.
e.g. Microsoft gladly takes code for free from OpenBSD (e.g. Services for Unix) yet their official OpenSSH fork is many many months behind upstream.
Apple, Alphabet/Inc. Google, similarly lag months, sometimes years behind their upstream projects. To say nothing of the unethical privacy invasions and advertising models which one of those in particular uses.
IBM, old enough to have sold computers to veritable WWII era Nazis, has subsumed RedHat, so if you want OpenSSH packages that are years behind upstream, you're set! They don't even bother to try to make the modest OpenBSD Foundation fundraising goal milestones of Google/Alphabet Inc.'s "Iridium" support tier.
Of course, nothing is stopping anyone from just running OpenBSD, or their own libre/free open source OS of choice these days.
Want Asahi Linux on your new M2 Mac? It can be done I guess? Though I'm not sure what the results were of that "should we make telemetry (aka spyware) opt in or opt out" the poll results looked distressing.
Libre/free open source hardware is picking up momentum. More RISC-V SBCs, tablets and purportedly even laptops are beginning to enter the market.
Headlines about Apple relying on Qualcomm for modems for their next iPhone were tinged with mention that Qualcomm is pursuing RISC-V for future designs, following in the foot steps of Western Digital, NVIDIA/Mellanox et al.
So, maybe there are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic?
But beware of pitfalls such as OpenSPARC, OpenPOWER, etc.
There is hella sourcewashing. :-/