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mhoye Feb 10, 2025

I remember when people would tell me, you have to buy software from the large software companies or it will probably break and be terrible.

Today, it’s like, Google property? Microsoft invested? V.v.sus. The software lives in a self-hosted machine named for a pun on some obscure kink, the developer is a furry, the logo is two furries, it’s gpl’ed and if you do five minutes of due diligence you’re going to see all of their politics and most of their butt? I will trust this software with my life.

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@mhoye I grew up in the #opensource software community, so I never bought into this. Sure, I switched to Chrome from #Firefox (which was already eroding Microsoft's grasp on the browser market) because it had better #UX (Unfortunately, a problem for most #oss) and it was still equal to Firefox in almost every other way but, I was still looking forward to the day when Firefox would be good enough (at UX) to win me over.

I'll still take the #FLOSS over proprietary any day if iteets my needs.