[fellowniusmonk]

Open Source is one of the most humanistic, progress driving cultures people have ever come up with.

I mean I am fucking shocked that people don't get this, our whole fucking modern world, all the parts that make stuff work, every last bit of it is built on top of or dependent on OSS.

There isn't a single lab, company, person or country that doesn't use and benefit from open source. Whether they know it or not.

It is what has supported widespread fractal improvement starting at the individual level. It's the greatest grassroots story movement ever and it's still driven by grassroot adoption.

It's like programatic peer review writ large with no gate keeping journals and its changed humanity forever, if we ever deflect that asteroid headed towards earth or if we make it to the stars, or if we figure out how to avoid the heat death, it's because open source got us there.

[walterbell]

> supported widespread fractal improvement starting at the individual level

Fitting that open-source was popularized by people who worked with nanotechnology, https://www.facesofopensource.com/christine-peterson/