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Dude is against open source cuz "it mathematically leads to monopoly" while working for Microsoft. (www.youtube.com)
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There are lots of other galaxy-brain moments there.

"Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin"

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net Let's hear your rant

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah I just like FOSS as a term and a concept and I'm not really sure what's to be gained by tossing it for FLOSS. Maybe this is naive but I've found when a term speaks to people it catches really easily on the internet, like CSAM for CSAM being almost universally recognized overnight. I guess I just feel like if FOSS was worth throwing out for reasons other than "Actually I call it GNU/Linux" it would already be done; or it would feel more compelling to do so

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I don't like either FOSS or FLOSS. But I see where you're coming from. I think FOSS is not worth arguing over in terms of changing what people already within the community say (compsci is already filled with strange terms), but I also want to clearly communicate the ideas of the 4 freedoms to outsiders coming in which FOSS doesn't do to those already unaware. "Our community" is already really niche as it is and also has bad actors who want to erase the freedom aspect as much as possible and using unclear and confusing terminology is a real tactic (look at people calling LLMs and machine learning "AI")

    Acronyms don't explain anything by themselves to people who don't already understand them. Your example works because it's already self describing, FOSS isn't as much.

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