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

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Also without open source the capitalist tech sector would collapse

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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

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

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Isnt every important server run on linux?

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I do too. To be clear, I did NOT mean that we could go without it today. What I meant was that if we didn’t have it to start with, things would’ve likely still developed albeit much more slowly.

I’ll also preface this by saying I definitely slightly misread everything before and so my reply was kinda crappy

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The counter point would be - with only state protectionism in the form of IP the crony-capitalist sector would monopolise and dominate.

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