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

      • fox [comrade/them]English
        29•1 year ago

        Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

    • @axsyse
      3•1 year ago

      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

      • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]English
        7•1 year ago

        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 dont think we will ever know, but Im not sure I agree. I dont know what the landscape would look like without relying on open source and patent theft. A lot of the stuff would probably not be financially viable.