Instead of benefiting society, they often take this idea that public are stupid
When the grand majority demands less bread and more taxes are we supposed to stand side-by-side with them and sing "kumbaya"? To work in benefit of the public doesn't necessarily mean in appeasement of the public, nor does it constrain our action to the confused whims of this majority that confuses its own chains with the means of its liberation. In moments such as today, where the people demand less bread more taxes, we are forced to be elitist, in moments like the ones we live today the solution lies _in_ elitism.
It is undeniable that the FOSS movement is deeply flawed and that is unable to free itself from the society that has birthed it, but that does not mean that to deny its victories counts as any sort of incisive or novel thought. Rather we have to understand the victories and defeats of FOSS, understand the great and undeniable benefits that it has infant brought to the totality of society in computing (the linux kernel, the modern web-browser (for good or for worse), and even several fundamental coding tools (compilers, UI-libraries) that are the basis for many proprietary programmes, etc.); and how it still cannot by itself and from itself save us from the bare-tyranies of the modern computer system.
We've stood by FOSSism, by FOSSism we've fallen, and tomorrow will come, by a different hand we will rise, and fall, whatever might it be.
9 Name: Anonymous2025-08-16 18:55
>>6 can you tell me what a FOSSfag is? It sounds like you made up a guy and got mad at him.
When the grand majority demands less bread and more taxes are we supposed to stand side-by-side with them and sing "kumbaya"? To work in benefit of the public doesn't necessarily mean in appeasement of the public, nor does it constrain our action to the confused whims of this majority that confuses its own chains with the means of its liberation.
In moments such as today, where the people demand less bread more taxes, we are forced to be elitist, in moments like the ones we live today the solution lies _in_ elitism.
It is undeniable that the FOSS movement is deeply flawed and that is unable to free itself from the society that has birthed it, but that does not mean that to deny its victories counts as any sort of incisive or novel thought. Rather we have to understand the victories and defeats of FOSS, understand the great and undeniable benefits that it has infant brought to the totality of society in computing (the linux kernel, the modern web-browser (for good or for worse), and even several fundamental coding tools (compilers, UI-libraries) that are the basis for many proprietary programmes, etc.); and how it still cannot by itself and from itself save us from the bare-tyranies of the modern computer system.
We've stood by FOSSism, by FOSSism we've fallen, and tomorrow will come, by a different hand we will rise, and fall, whatever might it be.