630
Open Source Rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/196
all 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] boo_ 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

This is the kind of encouragement I need, comrade 🫡

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

yaaay you're helping

[-] uriel238 57 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Is your keyboard breeding Bolsheviks?

[-] uriel238 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago
[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Easy enough to compile...

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Didn't know that. Fair enough for them.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 9 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 19 points 2 years ago

"Embrace, Extend, Extinquish"

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Zorsith 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] msage@programming.dev 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

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

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 7 points 2 years ago

A spectre is haunting your computer

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

that guy on the back sure does look like microsoft

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Programmers of the world, unite!

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

Remember: loose lips sink ships.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Because Apple just loves open source, of course.

this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
630 points (100.0% liked)

196

18737 readers
689 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.


Rule: You must post before you leave.



Other rules

Behavior rules:

Posting rules:

NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.

Other 196's:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS