Reiddragon :ablobcatattention: on Nostr: I keep seeing this enlihhtened centrism take of "FOSS is too much about purity!!!" ...
I keep seeing this enlihhtened centrism take of "FOSS is too much about purity!!!" which first, you're throwing together two funndamentally different ideologies there, Free Software and Open Source Software are analogous to communism and neoliberalism, but second, and in theme with the politics theme, it's really just tue tollerance paradox which we've seen play out in software a bajillion times.
People use open standards and free/open/public domain software, then a corrpo joins in with their proprietary thing acting all innocent and in love of the open standard, they start getting influence and become one of the biggest entities in the spave, then boom they stop supporting the open standard, getting a lot of people to join their proprietary thing until they eventually either make it so shit nobody uses it anymore, or outright axe it for the lolz. Sound familiar? It's what did with XMPP and Hangouts, as well as what Threads is trying to do on Fedi. Take away the initian open standard compatibility, and you have the story of Skype, Discord, Facebook, and so so many others. Proprietary software is fundamentally not designed to respect your freedom, it's just a product putting you at the whims of the developer. And the solution when the debepoper runs it into the ground? You can just switch to something else! Or can, you, really? If it's a local music player, sire, but if you're using a dogshit proprietary chat thing like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Discord etc. getting everyone to move is a lot of work, especially all moving to the same thing, because even if your friends are all willing to put in the effort to get away from hell, their friends might be too tired of the constant switching already. If the proprietary thing is your OS, then you'll have to make sure all the other softwate you're using is compatible with whatever you're switching to. Once you're caught in the spider web of a corporate proprietary anything, it's hell to get out, so how about not getting caught in the first place? THIS is why so maany peopls refuse to use corporate and proprietary anything, this isn't new, people have been burned befote by this shit.
To summarise the whole thing with a philosophical quote:
> "Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it." - Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldy Wisdom
People use open standards and free/open/public domain software, then a corrpo joins in with their proprietary thing acting all innocent and in love of the open standard, they start getting influence and become one of the biggest entities in the spave, then boom they stop supporting the open standard, getting a lot of people to join their proprietary thing until they eventually either make it so shit nobody uses it anymore, or outright axe it for the lolz. Sound familiar? It's what did with XMPP and Hangouts, as well as what Threads is trying to do on Fedi. Take away the initian open standard compatibility, and you have the story of Skype, Discord, Facebook, and so so many others. Proprietary software is fundamentally not designed to respect your freedom, it's just a product putting you at the whims of the developer. And the solution when the debepoper runs it into the ground? You can just switch to something else! Or can, you, really? If it's a local music player, sire, but if you're using a dogshit proprietary chat thing like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Discord etc. getting everyone to move is a lot of work, especially all moving to the same thing, because even if your friends are all willing to put in the effort to get away from hell, their friends might be too tired of the constant switching already. If the proprietary thing is your OS, then you'll have to make sure all the other softwate you're using is compatible with whatever you're switching to. Once you're caught in the spider web of a corporate proprietary anything, it's hell to get out, so how about not getting caught in the first place? THIS is why so maany peopls refuse to use corporate and proprietary anything, this isn't new, people have been burned befote by this shit.
To summarise the whole thing with a philosophical quote:
> "Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it." - Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldy Wisdom