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the future seems bleak (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hate antichrist meme template.

two people wearing helmets with logos of big corporations are raiding a house. The text below them reads, "we've got you surrounded, use our dis-services".

the person whose house is being raided is hiding, holding a gun with logos of GNU, Linux, Lineageos, Firefox, and Lemmy. The text above him says, "I hate corporations, I hate crony-capitalism."

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmm, I’m increasingly wary of FOSS software as well.

Depends on the license a project uses. GPL should be fine to prevent corporate exploitation.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/

The Software Freedom Conservancy lawsuit alleges that Vizio's TV products, built on its SmartCast system, contain software that Vizio unfairly appropriated from a community of developers who intended consumers to have very specific rights to modify, improve, share, and reinstall modified versions of the software.

According to the lawsuit, a consumer of a product such as this has the right to access the source code so that it can be modified, studied, and redistributed (under the appropriate license conditions).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Redhat has entered the chat