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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[-] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago

Also without open source the capitalist tech sector would collapse

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't necessarily collapse (it wasn't exactly suffering before FOSS stuff "hit the shelves", so to speak) but the gatekeeping that comes with it would certainly cause a tremendous amount of stagnation

[-] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

I work in software development. Almost all modern architecture would collapse without the open source ecosystem.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Isnt every important server run on linux?

[-] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

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