It’s so easy shitting on techbro VC nonsense that only separates us from our humanity to sell adspace. What actual problems do you want technology to solve?

      • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Yes, every chip and circuit completely open and transparent with published schematics.

        Having the source be open is a necessary but not sufficient condition of Free Software already, so there’s no need to say “free and open source” since the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.

        • TimeTravel_0@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.

          wait really?

          • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            Yes. Consider Android for a concrete example. Android is an Open Source project, but to build a completely working Android phone with all the features a user would expect from that requires a significant amount of nonFree Google software. Further, Android devices can be (and in fact usually are) sold in a condition which deliberately locks away the user’s ability to examine and modify the code running on them.