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Looking at what's happening with RAM pricing and Crucial being shuttered, the doomer in me thinks they could just pull the same thing with every other PC component. It's not like some plucky band of upstarts can start 3D printing organic free-range FOSS processors, hard drives and motherboards in their garage- all of this shit comes out of a couple of giant plants in Asia. If porky strangles the supply, that's it. In the end all the average joe schmoe will be left with are cloud-based terminals that rely entirely on subscription services and that require strong identification to even use (and that will monitor and log every single fucking thing you do while drowning you in ads)

Wanna install Linux? Go ahead! What are you going to install it on though, your grandpa's old Pentium? porky-happy

Wanna ditch subscription services and sail the seas? Oops, it looks like hard drives cost 5,000 dollars and are only sold to enterprise customers. I guess you're not storing that media anywhere porky-happy

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Corps trying to get in on Linux and make a version you pay them for has already happened twice (RedHat, Canonical) and it's about to happen again with Valve. It's been fine, the GPL is mostly working at keeping them from stealing it all. You're even using stuff made by all three of those companies.

There's also Android where they made a whole layer of Not Linux on top of a Linux and that's kind of shitty, but it hasn't hurt mainline Linux at all, and despite their best efforts, the part where it's open source has let all sorts of projects use Android for things Google wouldn't like (like those emulator handhelds).

[–] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

GPL stays winning, permissive licenses coping and/or seething. Imagine a different timeline where Apple or Sony had to put all of that back into FreeBSD.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

People are being mad about the AGPL again.