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by krupan 44 days ago
I can agree that the original aims of the movement haven't fully caught on, especially the subtle difference between Open Source and Free/Libre software. The pragmatic side of better security, low-bureaucracy standardization, and low price won out over Freedom for freedom's sake.

To me that's most apparent today with LLMs. Those are completely proprietary and privately controlled, yet the software world now LOVES them.