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).
*capitalism not crony capitalism
Crony-capitalism is redundant, it’s just Capitalism.
fr tho, cronyism is the inevitable result of capitalism. there is always a tendency towards oligopolies.
My eyes auto-correct “crony capitalism” to “capitalism”
Capitalism and the state have been intertwined since the birth of capitalism, overtly and forcefully.
I agree with the message but holy hell I hate everything about this image lmao
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
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.
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.
yeah, the meme template I used is intentionally like that with the trollface and such. sorry if it bothered you. I had to recently interact with one of these dis-services and it made me think of this.
Oh you don’t have to apologize, I’m fully aware that’s the point! I just thought I was immune to ugly memes by now I guess haha.
