It’s so easy shitting on techbro VC nonsense that only separates us from our humanity to sell adspace. What actual problems do you want technology to solve?

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Yes. Consider Android for a concrete example. Android is an Open Source project, but to build a completely working Android phone with all the features a user would expect from that requires a significant amount of nonFree Google software. Further, Android devices can be (and in fact usually are) sold in a condition which deliberately locks away the user’s ability to examine and modify the code running on them.