i was gonna say "when are governments going to realize that allowing for-profit corporations to control vital public infrastructure like operating systems is a bad idea and that they should fund public owned systems" but then i realized i don't actuall...
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i was gonna say "when are governments going to realize that allowing for-profit corporations to control vital public infrastructure like operating systems is a bad idea and that they should fund public owned systems" but then i realized i don't actually trust any government with my operating system either so
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i was gonna say "when are governments going to realize that allowing for-profit corporations to control vital public infrastructure like operating systems is a bad idea and that they should fund public owned systems" but then i realized i don't actually trust any government with my operating system either so
@eniko considering they've allowed for-profits to take over fire prevention and firefighting tasks, with clear results here in spain...
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@eniko considering they've allowed for-profits to take over fire prevention and firefighting tasks, with clear results here in spain...
@efi for real? they figured out that was a bad fucking plan literally as far back as the roman fucking empire
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i was gonna say "when are governments going to realize that allowing for-profit corporations to control vital public infrastructure like operating systems is a bad idea and that they should fund public owned systems" but then i realized i don't actually trust any government with my operating system either so
@eniko Fund doesn’t mean control. If we taxed corporations as they live off open source they didn’t pay for (as in just tax them more, not figuring out what they use) and funded open source projects we’d be fine.
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@eniko Fund doesn’t mean control. If we taxed corporations as they live off open source they didn’t pay for (as in just tax them more, not figuring out what they use) and funded open source projects we’d be fine.
@yon if you fund it you control it, because you can say "do this or else we pull your funding"
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i was gonna say "when are governments going to realize that allowing for-profit corporations to control vital public infrastructure like operating systems is a bad idea and that they should fund public owned systems" but then i realized i don't actually trust any government with my operating system either so
@eniko There's always Linux, the anarchist operating system...assuming some other set of programs haven't already locked you into another OS...and that you're technically literate enough to fuck about with Linux when you need to...
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@eniko There's always Linux, the anarchist operating system...assuming some other set of programs haven't already locked you into another OS...and that you're technically literate enough to fuck about with Linux when you need to...
@Video_Game_King and you're not trying to use it on a smartphone
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@Video_Game_King and you're not trying to use it on a smartphone
inb4 Android is Linux.
Technical pseudo-jokes about (we all know that's not what is meant) “there's always Linux” doesn't even work if you personally run it on your phone because of a number of features that are making the incumbent OSes necessary (banking, access to government digital services).
Which brings me to what is actually my answer to my actually reply: «what makes you think that government isn't perfectly aligned with the for-profit corp direction?»
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inb4 Android is Linux.
Technical pseudo-jokes about (we all know that's not what is meant) “there's always Linux” doesn't even work if you personally run it on your phone because of a number of features that are making the incumbent OSes necessary (banking, access to government digital services).
Which brings me to what is actually my answer to my actually reply: «what makes you think that government isn't perfectly aligned with the for-profit corp direction?»
(The point being that in this case the OS lockdown by for-profit corps is perfectly aligned with the interests of governments which are year-over-year more interested in monitoring and suppressing dissent. And the complete absence of meaningful —ie threatening for the status quo— alternatives _starting from the political options_)
