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Messed up
Intelligent people are mostly avoiding any products from companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, and similar Big Tech these days, allowing partial touch only in extreme cases. These companies are like greedy monsters, cannibals… too big and messed up, with the wrong ideas and values. Capitalism (at huge scales) itself is a trouble already.…
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Techno-Feudalism
Such a view might sound logically correct, addressing why the next stage involves all that discussion about free software. Recently, I wrote about the concepts of free code in contrast to the market. I perceive the situation of techno-feudalism as an unbalanced disproportionately influenced by initial setup of digital world. However, I think it will…
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Open source and proprietary software: when is appropriate & a little about the excess
On one hand, open source is always better; you know what the program is doing and can improve it… But on the other hand, developers need to earn a living. Indeed, it’s ridiculous to work for free, as one can easily die of hunger, lose motivation… Programming can bring pleasure in itself, but it’s not…
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Complicated questions
Open Source in capitalism? Free information is a big virtue and a mega important factor for our progress, obviously. But how to make a living out of it?.. Today’s money system is bad; those greedy, mad, overgrown corporations… Money is a temporary, archaic concept for energy distribution. Open is better, information’s nature is to be…