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[-] boo_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 65 points 4 months ago

This is the kind of encouragement I need, comrade 🫡

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So does this mean my open source project CI/CD pipeline is a step towards fully automated luxury gay space communism?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

yaaay you're helping

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 4 months ago

「Bolshevik chorus intensifies 」

When you program closed source, you invite spies and saboteurs to utilize your exploits.

When you enforce IP holdings, you steal from the public.

We are locked into surviving by capitalism the same way we are locked into commuting by car.

WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS!

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Is your keyboard breeding Bolsheviks?

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

That is a very interesting question. Are you asking because I used the 「 ... 」brackets?

When I've posted on Lemmy before, the pointy brackets < ... > sometimes don't show, nor will anything in between them, so I chose a different set not knowing what they are.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I think the Japanese use them when they're quoting something. I could be wrong, though.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Calling open source communism aside, capitalism and those who benefit the most from it probably absolutely HATE the largest open source projects because the more people use those, the less likely they are to use their telemetry based spy/bloatware.

Imagine trying to make a paid video/audio file player in today's day and age and going up against the titan that is VLC. Or an audio editor/playback program in similar fashion to Audacity. Two of the biggest open source programs that I imagine just about anyone who has used a computer has probably heard of and/or used at some point.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Well, Reaper is more popular with musicians than Audacity, and it follows the Winrar business model

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

I'd argue that Audacity (audio recording/editing/processing suite) is a little different niche than Reaper (full-fledged DAW). If your use case is "I'm doing a podcast and I need to do an audio recording from multiple mics and mix them down", Audacity is good enough that there's no point in paying extra for a DAW. If you're a musician and you need to mess nondestructively with recordings and MIDI and filters, then you know you need to go bigger.

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago
[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It's paid unless you know how to compile it.

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Easy enough to compile...

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Didn't know that. Fair enough for them.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I sometimes wonder (with a deep, cold shudder) if someone somewhere could take this poster at face value. Someone so far removed from my own edifice of knowledge, experience and opinions, that this can be read as anything other than ironic satire.

For example, some home-schooled children in Idaho or Arkansas, by parents made crazy by limbaugh and murdoch, then breitbart and infowars.

The kind of people so clueless that they could bite off the hand that feeds them, voting republican while crying out "keep your dirty government hands off my Medicare", thinking that Medicare is a private enterprise... thingy... that's like... their birthright... and it's made by... angels, reading The Holy Bible or something... and that's... a sustainable business model for all involved?

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago

For example, some home-schooled children in Idaho or Arkansas, by parents made crazy by limbaugh and murdoch, then breitbart and infowars.

Yes, yes there are. I have met them.

[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 20 points 4 months ago

not sure if this referring to anything specifically but M$ has lots of open source stuff and also invests in Linux - just saying.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/projects/

[-] ayla@beehaw.org 21 points 4 months ago
[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Forgot to check the community, didn’t realize they were just makin a meme

24 years ago is a long ass time ago haha

[-] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Lmao that is the dumbest take on linux ive seen and it made my day

[-] WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

That hasn’t always been true. This meme is older than Microsoft being open source friendly.

[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

Right right, definitely memeable

Just wasn’t sure if it was a current criticism of current people and ideologies working at Microsoft

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

Microsoft has tons of open source stuff and tons of support programs for open source projects.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Microsoft, but FOSS isn't one of them.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, now, and only because they lost and gave up. Some of us don't forgive past misdeeds so easily.

Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their "support" for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.

I'll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah but I think that this highlights something quite well: Open Source is inherently corporate. It was created as a branch from the free/libre software movement, to extract it's open development model and make it corporate-friendly

"Open Source is just a corporate development model"

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 months ago

"Embrace, Extend, Extinquish"

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

If they're doing that, they're playing a very long game.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago

Are they, though? How many game studios did they just buy and immediately shutter? Have they ever NOT been involved in anti-competitive lawsuits?

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

We're talking about open source software, not games.

[-] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Yea they have played nice with FOSS, albeit the game studio craziness is a bunch of bs

[-] msage@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

How about the Office format shenanigans?

Do people not know or forget that M$ is only supporting things that don't threaten their bottom line, or things they themselves (ab)use?

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

actually, communists program free/libre and reject open source as corporate 🤓
/hj

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

This meme is so old that homie is rocking a G3 gum drop iMac.

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The meme is from around 2000. Originally it was about downloading MP3s.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

Oh gee whiz, I'm glad I like communism then 😅

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago

That guy is coding open source software on a 1998 bondi blue iMac.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Might be red and blue but that fruit Mac is probably rockin’ Yellow Dog.

A spectre is haunting your computer

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

Microsoft advertising open source? Maybe open source isn't that good after all?

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

that guy on the back sure does look like microsoft

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Programmers of the world, unite!

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

If it's Microsoft telling us that then why does the computer look like an iMac?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Because Apple just loves open source, of course.

[-] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Remember: loose lips sink ships.

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