RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kernellogger/115898435262936250
Not even halfway through the article and this already hit hard:
"[A]n overall increase in interest in Linux and free software will be driven by a combination of surveillance concerns, forced upgrades, unwanted AI features, and increasing hardware prices."
This is a flag that almost 20 years back was already being raised in the free software communities. I remember similar discussions at FISL (Porto Alegre's old Free Software Forum) panels, which were met with dismissive statements from most of the tech professionals at the time.
We already had trust issues after everything Microsoft did in the 90's and early 2000's, but it was clear that it was not a Microsoft-specific issue, that it would be pervasive and widespread in the computing ecosystem as soon as the adoption of IT was ubiquitous. The free software community called it, and thanks to the immense efforts from communities (and some corporate entities who saw value in it, obviously) we avoided being in a hopeless position.
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