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OO000oo on July 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

> I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests

They already serve 99% of corporate interests. A "takeover" would sacrifice the veil of what the propagandized "open source community" interprets as corporate egalitarianism.

zeroCalories on July 30, 2023 [–]

If you make no distinction between free software and open source, sure. But the free software community, centered around fsf, is known to be hard to work with.

OO000oo on July 30, 2023 | [–]

Sadly, that difficulty is practically the only difference in the distinction. Each share the same crippling shortcomings: those of capitalism itself.

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