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@Suiseiseki to be fair both IBM and Cygnus did do a great deal of heavy lifting towards making free software or at least open source socially acceptable. Although both were clearly imperfect and engaged in the above, it is likely we'd be way further behind if we didn't have both
@Suiseiseki i distinctly remember in the early days they bragged about being the biggest open source forge as their primary selling point "where open source happens" or some shit
...ah yes more russian propaganda straight from @Nazareno this time being RT'd by @s5s5s
The US can cause the extinction of the human species on a whim of a single dementia-addled octogenerian. The idea that they are a 'paper tiger' is a narrative that only makes sense if you are required by russian law to lie about everything.
iff you ignore the parts they lifted from free platforms
ie take the parts out of autocad or photoshop or whatever that were developed by free software hackers [ the the pre-GNU stuff developers took for granted would be free forever ] out and you won't be left with a working program
>? it's just code that tells the computer how to function
Since it's proprietary, you don't know that. You're making an unsubstantiated and probablistically virtually unsubstantiatable claim.
Also: there's been persuasive computing efforts since the 90s ( https://cacm.acm.org/issue/may-1999/ ), that genie is out of the bottle and is not coming back.
You either push to exert control your computer, or you let it slip to those who would control you with it
> but what about [bugs]
If a hardware makes their design #defectivebydesign and hides details of fixes from the user, that's on the hardware manufacturer, not the user.
@Starprophet1@5arrows@bloggerski > It's a really sooper dooper scary magical virus, that can tell the difference between a BLM shirt and a MAGA hat, just like the totally believable ZOG health experts said.
No it can't. Both BLM *and* maga large gatherings spread it. And here you are with saying what "health experts" claim something that would not pass muster in any serious medical journal.
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