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.”
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.
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).
