drummyfish/less_retarded_wiki
5
1
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity

Update

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Miloslav Ciz 2024-06-29 19:04:58 +02:00
parent 681319f2f2
commit f5c9f4da18
39 changed files with 1862 additions and 1803 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2
free_software.md
View file

@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Free software was invented by [Richard Stallman](rms.md) in the 1980s. His free
TODO: something here
**By 2024 free software is dead** -- yes, FSF and some free software "activists" are still around, but they don't bear any significance, just like the hippies lost any significance after 1960s etc. Corruption, politics and [free market](capitalism.md) have finally killed the movement, [open $ource](open_source.md) prevailed and it is now redefining even the basic pillars of the four freedoms (partial openness or just source availability is now practically synonymous with "open source"), probably sealing the fate of technology, free software seems to have only postponed capitalist disaster by a few decades, which is still a great feat. { It's been pointed out to me that even some project that call themselves "free" or "libre", such as "Libre"Boot, are in fact breaking the rules of freedom now, for example by including proprietary blobs. ~drummyfish }
**By 2024 free software is dead** -- yes, FSF and some free software "activists" are still around, but they don't bear any significance, just like the hippies lost any significance after 1960s etc. Corruption, politics and [free market](capitalism.md) have finally killed the movement, [open $ource](open_source.md) prevailed and it is now redefining even the basic pillars of the four freedoms (partial openness or just source availability is now practically synonymous with "open source"), probably sealing the fate of technology, free software seems to have only postponed [capitalist disaster](capitalist_singularity.md) by a few decades, which is still a great feat. { It's been pointed out to me that even some project that call themselves "free" or "libre", such as "Libre"Boot, are in fact breaking the rules of freedom now, for example by including proprietary blobs. ~drummyfish }
## "Free" Software Alternatives, Pseudo Free Environments AKA What Freedom Really Is