ar.al🌻
Linux and “open source” in a nutshell, from the horse’s mouth:
“There is a genuine reason to worry. My desktop is free but my data and applications (which run in the cloud) aww not … what do you care about more – just that the code is open or also about the business practices as well?”
Linus Torvalds: “Personally, I only care about the code. When I say maybe there are people who worry about walled gardens and cloud provides who take ownership of your data, I am not one of those people.”
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@aral this echoes his 2014 statement about tivoization. he has given no fucks about user freedom for a while.
Q: “Do you think that tivoization benefits me as a user, somehow?”
A: "No. No I don’t. But that was not why I selected GPLv2. In my worldview, if you as the hardware maker make hardware that locks down the software, that has no impact on my decision as the software maker to give you the software. That was never the social contract I intended with Linux."
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