Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoIn a perfect world that makes everyone happy there’s 5 Apples, 5 Microsofts, 10 open source projects funded by governments and 20 independent open source alternatives, all working same interoperable standards.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Why in a perfect world would anything be proprietary? I just don’t buy it.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Because some like proprietary and why would you make their lives harder? As long as it’s interoperable and a part of a broader healthy ecosystem there’s place for every approach.
Like, I wouldn’t mind if someone made a proprietary Activity Pub Reddit alternative. They could compete on some UI features, support, moderation etc. The more the merrier and we could all still talk.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Well, the only reason I can see them liking proprietary is because that money still exists and that money allows propietary companies (and open source to be fair) to do more. If money didn’t exist there would be no need for proprietary companies nor a need to ‘protect’ their ‘property’ and in my perfect world money doesn’t exist, therefore no need for proprietary code/products.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I can be called a commie and won’t flinch at it but currency is useful, you just don’t need to fetishise it. People should be rewarded for their work as long as it’s not some form of rentierism, how to organise it isn’t that relevant because there are many ways to achieve it.