2026-09-27 00:56 UTC
Building the same thing as a closed source product, but making the source available, is not a noble pursuit in itself. The point of free software is that it liberates and democratizes. If you’ve forgotten that, what you’re building doesn’t really matter.
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@tyzbit@toot.now 2026-09-27 01:05
@danirabbit@mastodon.online yep, open source dark patterns are still open source. businesses jettison FLOSS and libre ideals because they harm profit and control, but became amenable to open source because that allowed them to benefit from free labor. small communities and even individual people sometimes adopt open source too, for the wrong reasons - the clout, the appearance of freedom, the free labor businesses benefit from, the diffusion of responsibility.
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@lisamelton@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 01:49
@danirabbit@mastodon.online This. 💯
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@oleksandr@activitypub.natalenko.name 2026-09-27 13:07
@danirabbit@mastodon.online where is my "rms was right" tshirt please