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@sun I've been saying for like five years at this point that Linux has been subverted by corporate interests where lots of different people and organizations that the end user has no practical way of vetting or opting out of or in general having any say in has captured the OS. up until now it's seemed benign to most people but this tactic of maliciously contributing to the technical development of software is a thing that SV companies have already successfully used to subvert the web (esp Google) and it's been obvious to me that they were going to start doing the same thing to Linux more openly than just contributing shit like systemd that only nerds care about

@Ree @sun the problem is that FOSS has never had any serious political commitments that could have prepared it to resist shit like this. computer touchers only think in terms of the technical merits of something without thinking in terms of the bigger picture of what the political implications are of letting corporate interests have more of an influence over projects by allowing them to contribute code, and the only thing that FOSS added to this was using licenses that these corporations will ignore anyways if they care to since they have far more resources than the FSF to win in court cases.