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by throw2016
2593 days ago
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What made Linux and FOSS possible is a specific time and context and that is not happening again. There is no job security, everything is about building a resume, getting a job and hanging on or a startup, everything is related to money or status. There is also an ahistorical perspective of tech, as if things just are or happen with no deliberate effort and its an open question whether there is any real commitment or concern for the principles which drove the open source movement. In many ways Slashdot defined the original generation and Hackernews defines this one. And even paying lip service to principles would be quaint here. Defending building surveillance systems and stalking people 24/7 while referring to general users as idiots are often the top voted comments. This is a huge shift. |
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Dave Taht • 44 minutes ago We really, really, really need a return to our core values I remember how fired up I was in 1999, when I wrote this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxLbNCB-YKI and how fired up I am now to try and get our internet back. Still it is hard to be a revolutionary with two kids and a mortgage, and we've lost most of the next generation of coders to javascript and student debt.