nixCraft 🐧Jul 17

Back in my day, we bought things once and actually owned them. Imagine that! You'd get a CD, a movie, a game, or a piece of software, it was a tangible item with a set price that was all yours. No strings attached.

Now? Everything's a fucking subscription. It's like renting your life, but somehow it ends up being way more expensive in the long run. Go figure.

This is why open source matters a lot. It still gives you freedom and whenever possible please support your favourite FLOSS app 👍

Show threadCurtis CarterJul 17

@nixCraft I wish we treated software more like books. After X years the copyright runs out and the source code is released as publicndomain. This would be a treasure trove to have all the tricks and tips the graybeards of yore left for us to discover.

Like the many stories of how crash bandicoot and doom overcame the limitations of their hardware but with the code to see how it was implemented.

Show threadshironekoJul 17
@codingcoyote @nixCraft yeah I would totally use some 120 year old software.
Show threadshironekoJul 17
@codingcoyote @nixCraft we need to go back to 14 years
Show threadCurtis CarterJul 17
@shironeko @nixCraft as fast as tech moves that might be a maintainable timeframe. Ideally any patents used in it would have expired around the same time though.
Show threadshironeko
@codingcoyote @nixCraft yeah, not to mention software patents is generally a dumb idea to begin with.
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Show threadCurtis CarterJul 17
@shironeko @nixCraft not always, although generally they are abused in ridiculous ways. In the U.S at least we need major copyright and patent law reforms to handle this and clean up the damage done by previous revisions