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.”

  • Axiochus@lemmy.world
    59·
    9 months ago

    Hmmm, I’m increasingly wary of FOSS software as well. It’s part of the system and can be bought up. Not sure about the alternatives to it, though. I guess highly technical people with lots of free time can just self-host and compile, but that’s a minority.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      6·
      9 months ago

      we just really need a handful of highly technical people with free time to host lemmy for all of us :)

      its okay if they are a minority, we can all benefit

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      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).

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    52·
    9 months ago

    I know this is a funny haha but NGL I’d rather have this bleak future than revert back to 1997 with FOSS alternatives.

    • nxdefiant@startrek.website
      8·
      9 months ago

      1997 FOSS was hard mode, absolutely, but compared to the paid alternatives at the time, it was only mildly worse than today.

      I will not be removing my rose colored glasses and will take no questions, thank you for your time.

    • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      There really has been nothing even close to it since. I hoped OnePlus would at least be a fairly clean flagship killer, but then the cofounder left it enshittified so bad. The Nexus was the BEST!

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      64·
      9 months ago

      I’m not even sure what the message is. FOSS has never been more attractive or easy to use (on the large scale at least, never mind the weirdos freaking over xz). There’s FOSS for most everything, in some cases better than most paid options.

      Corpos gunning for FOSS? That’s always been here.

      • Techranger@infosec.pub
        181·
        9 months ago

        They’re gunning for the user, whom they wish to exploit. The user clings to FLOSS alternatives in an attempt to avoid having their data harvested, analyzed, weaponized, and leveraged against the user for profit.

    • Minotaur@lemm.ee
      847·
      9 months ago

      Everything about Lemmy makes more sense when you realize it’s user base is 95% people with good intentions and absolutely no fucking clue what they’re talking about or how life works outside of computers

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
        25·
        9 months ago

        Your problem, as a filthy lib, is that you don’t see dying in a shootout with the feds and/or Pinkertons as the most American thing you can do.

        You merely need to change your perspective to the correct one of getting your guns back from going far enough left.