https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/

https://www.sensorwatch.net/

tuta.io & mailbox.org

I’m so happy I moved away from them a year and something ago. This was totally predictable

But at least you got your mercenary payout no?

This kind of attitude towards people just trying to get by is a pretty shitty one

OP, by their own words, is set up for life. They could retire now if they wanted to.

You aren’t above anybody by being an OSS dev.

I am not, but at least I am not a class traitor.

Since uni decades ago, people have had contempt for devs joining the ranks of Facebook and Google. Nowadays is the grifters that work in AI startups. And previously was the grift of cryptocoins. None of them were nicely seen in any of my circles, OSS, uni folks, conferences. I have old uni friends that ended up working for Microsoft via acquisition, and they ended up depressed and with serious health problems from the stress.

You take ownership of something, and you break it? You own the pieces. Adult accountability, which seems to be missing in the USA.

If the OP is feeling empty and sad, by their own words, then, what better approach than to work on something that undos the damage he, by their own words, has inflicted upon the world

I mean, for the love of god. Let’s read the article of the thread we are…

You are part of the problem. You chose to profit by building their tools. Now they enslave you.

You still have valuable experience that this world needs. You could choose to work on open source software, and in building an ecosystem outside of the technofascism you did mercenary work for.

Signed, an open source developer (that also gets paid a pretty penny and is still happy with their day to day work, surrounded by like-minded peers).

Regulate the social networks instead

Quite well written post. That Collabora (the unnamed entity) has chosen to extort the foundation and use its power to make the foundation fail its legal promises (and therefore force it to be disolved legally), only speaks badly of Collabora.

Agree. But it’s “citizens” not civilians. “Civilians” are those that aren’t military. Civilians are virtually everybody, police included. The USA started this double-speak ~15 years ago, where they pretend that police are military, and police aren’t civilians. Please stop rewiring your brain by using their language.

If you dont want corpos to exploit it, you go with GPL. Then they are forced to share back.

That license looks like Creative Commons Non-Comercial, which is not an open source license.

The BY-NC-SA 4.0 is not an open source license. This printer is not open source. Stop calling it. Even if they themselves call it that way, or “open”.

NC - non commercial. Nobody is alowed to sell you the printer nor replacements. Yea you can print it yourself, for that 1% that has a printer.

CC BY-NC-SA

Not open printer. Not open source. You will only be able to get replacements from them, worse than some other printer companies…

Indeed. Looking forward to the new Valve headset, which is just a normal Arm pc with a linux distro, including a desktop mode. Given that they push for upstreaming, i have quite the hopes to just be able to install any linux arm distro in the future.

Software that respects your freedom is the way

don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.

True about those without video outputs. But in Linux, game specific patches are in Mesa and not in the graphics drivers for example.

Unless you were a hard GNU fan when you were a kid, it was the same process of giving power to billionares. Just that now it sits on 50 years of wins for the billionares side. So it’s closer to the endgame.

Signal, the messenger that lags code sumps for a year so they can get a leg up with insider knowledge of their own cryptocurrency?