• Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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    12 hours ago

    I mean, I guess it’s good to have more thigns, but isn’t this kinda playing in to the “You will own nothing and be happy” BS?

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      11 hours ago

      In principle I agree (I mean, see the “Socialist” up there) but Linux isn’t the thing that will enforce ownership of anything. See Android.

      It could be, but it’s now in the hands of the same evil corporations that made some guys start GNU and shit.

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            Except that it’s not “linux” like an actual open source linux distro is. There is no parallel here.

            Also, a negative example shouldn’t make you go “oh I guess there’s no hope then, let’s embrace the death of ownership”.

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              Android IS an open source Linux distro.

              It’s all the software that’s added to Android that’s proprietary. Binary blobs for Qualcomm chips, Google Play services, etc.

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              It’s the kernel. For starters, Linux is a kernel. I don’t understand your point, the people running the Linux ecosystem (the corpos injecting money in the infrastructure and participating in the governance through the Linux Foundation) don’t care about user ownership. NVIDIA is a bad collaborator but it’s still allowed to do the shit they do. As other nonfree contributors on drivers.

              But let’s suppose an open and universal implementation standard of ARM and modem drivers was enforced? We’d have hundreds of viable Linux phones already. The battle wouldn’t be pretty but the alternative would be the current shitty state of affairs.

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        It could be, but it’s now in the hands of the same evil corporations that made some guys start GNU and shit.

        GNU was started because of a broken printer. Jokes aside, RMS got upset that the company that manufactured the printer could not give the source code for him to modify it to make the printer better. That is when he founded the gnu project and the fsf.