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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (12 children)

The fact that the FOSS model is still considered the best thing ever is so sad to me. The "free" part is clearly not working. Or rather it is working as is now intended: free labour for the private sector to exploit.

The Telekommunist Manifesto for the longer version of this 🙃

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not so sure the "open source" part is working either when you think about how AI tools were trained.

    It's really sad, because the accessibility of developing software and collaborative nature of the open source community is a big part of what drew me to software engineering as a career, and it's always been one of the first things I mention about why I love it. But, of course, these fucking evil companies found a way to take every individual part of something good and twist it into something awful.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    FOSS will always be incompatible with capitalism. There is no incentive for the capitalist class to pay for the open source they consume.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wrong. In example Valve is putting money and work into FOSS. AND they make money of it and rely on it. Even Microsoft does contribute to Open Source, believe it or not, even is one of the top sponsors for Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The pittance that most of these companies do contribute is in no way a fair share of the profits they reap from using FOSS.

    Valve is an exception to the rule.

    You're arguing that the factory owner giving a few bucks to someone who produced a tool that improved productivity of the factory is somehow a just compensation.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    There has been the "4opens" criteria, that has been more on point than free/libre/open source.

    In hindsight, defeating corporate and AI piggery might have needed single-maintainer closed source with open protocols. Software components? Maybe it would have led to the compound document model instead of the app model, architecturally enforcing openness.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Funny, you are using with lemmy something for free, which is to some extent in the spirit of FOSS.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Haha funny you use a phone and buy things yet you are anticapitalist haha" ahh argument

    The copyfarleft licenses are not incompatible with the spirit of FOSS, they work exactly the same for the people, the only difference is that companies can either fuck off or pay

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How is the free part not working? FOSS is the cure of the industry. Or do you think Adobe and Microsoft is working that great? Imagine if we didn't have FOSS...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I don't deny its great contributions to the public and free culture, but I think it has become insufficient. The industry abuses it as much as it can, so I believe the only way to defend ourself is to migrate to a copyfarleft licensing model. With it, we can keep the same openness and freedom for the commons, but force the private sector to choose: either pay for our work, or fuck off.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The "free" part is clearly not working. Or rather it is working as is now intended: free labour for the private sector to exploit.

    I remember seeing a thread about redis on r/linux where lots and lots of people were basically defending Amazon as if from an anarcho-capitalist position. This confused me as I always saw foss (and foss users) as leaning socialist and anti-corporate.

    I spoke to someone about that and they linked me this article (and the article linked in the first sentence) which really opened my eyes.

    The TL;Dr is basically:

    FOSS is not socialist. The free software movement is right-libertarian / "anarcho"-capitalist, and the open source movement is neoliberal; neither of these is even particularly close to socialism.

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