It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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  • aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    The fact that the FOSS model is still considered the best thing ever is so sad to me. The “free” part is clearly not working. Or rather it is working as is now intended: free labour for the private sector to exploit.

    The Telekommunist Manifesto for the longer version of this 🙃

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      4 months ago

      Funny, you are using with lemmy something for free, which is to some extent in the spirit of FOSS.

      • aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        “Haha funny you use a phone and buy things yet you are anticapitalist haha” ahh argument

        The copyfarleft licenses are not incompatible with the spirit of FOSS, they work exactly the same for the people, the only difference is that companies can either fuck off or pay