Remember: loose lips sink ships.
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that guy on the back sure does look like microsoft
If it's Microsoft telling us that then why does the computer look like an iMac?
Because Apple just loves open source, of course.
Programmers of the world, unite!
I sometimes wonder (with a deep, cold shudder) if someone somewhere could take this poster at face value. Someone so far removed from my own edifice of knowledge, experience and opinions, that this can be read as anything other than ironic satire.
For example, some home-schooled children in Idaho or Arkansas, by parents made crazy by limbaugh and murdoch, then breitbart and infowars.
The kind of people so clueless that they could bite off the hand that feeds them, voting republican while crying out "keep your dirty government hands off my Medicare", thinking that Medicare is a private enterprise... thingy... that's like... their birthright... and it's made by... angels, reading The Holy Bible or something... and that's... a sustainable business model for all involved?
For example, some home-schooled children in Idaho or Arkansas, by parents made crazy by limbaugh and murdoch, then breitbart and infowars.
Yes, yes there are. I have met them.
That guy is coding open source software on a 1998 bondi blue iMac.
So does this mean my open source project CI/CD pipeline is a step towards fully automated luxury gay space communism?
yaaay you're helping
Calling open source communism aside, capitalism and those who benefit the most from it probably absolutely HATE the largest open source projects because the more people use those, the less likely they are to use their telemetry based spy/bloatware.
Imagine trying to make a paid video/audio file player in today's day and age and going up against the titan that is VLC. Or an audio editor/playback program in similar fashion to Audacity. Two of the biggest open source programs that I imagine just about anyone who has used a computer has probably heard of and/or used at some point.
Well, Reaper is more popular with musicians than Audacity, and it follows the Winrar business model
I'd argue that Audacity (audio recording/editing/processing suite) is a little different niche than Reaper (full-fledged DAW). If your use case is "I'm doing a podcast and I need to do an audio recording from multiple mics and mix them down", Audacity is good enough that there's no point in paying extra for a DAW. If you're a musician and you need to mess nondestructively with recordings and MIDI and filters, then you know you need to go bigger.
Ardour.
It's paid unless you know how to compile it.
Easy enough to compile...
Didn't know that. Fair enough for them.
「Bolshevik chorus intensifies 」
When you program closed source, you invite spies and saboteurs to utilize your exploits.
When you enforce IP holdings, you steal from the public.
We are locked into surviving by capitalism the same way we are locked into commuting by car.
WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS!
Is your keyboard breeding Bolsheviks?
That is a very interesting question. Are you asking because I used the 「 ... 」brackets?
When I've posted on Lemmy before, the pointy brackets < ... > sometimes don't show, nor will anything in between them, so I chose a different set not knowing what they are.
I think the Japanese use them when they're quoting something. I could be wrong, though.
This meme is so old that homie is rocking a G3 gum drop iMac.
actually, communists program free/libre and reject open source as corporate 🤓
/hj
Microsoft has tons of open source stuff and tons of support programs for open source projects.
There are plenty of reasons to criticize Microsoft, but FOSS isn't one of them.
Yeah, now, and only because they lost and gave up. Some of us don't forgive past misdeeds so easily.
Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their "support" for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.
I'll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.
Yeah but I think that this highlights something quite well: Open Source is inherently corporate. It was created as a branch from the free/libre software movement, to extract it's open development model and make it corporate-friendly
"Open Source is just a corporate development model"
"Embrace, Extend, Extinquish"
If they're doing that, they're playing a very long game.
Are they, though? How many game studios did they just buy and immediately shutter? Have they ever NOT been involved in anti-competitive lawsuits?
We're talking about open source software, not games.
Yea they have played nice with FOSS, albeit the game studio craziness is a bunch of bs
How about the Office format shenanigans?
Do people not know or forget that M$ is only supporting things that don't threaten their bottom line, or things they themselves (ab)use?
Microsoft advertising open source? Maybe open source isn't that good after all?
Oh gee whiz, I'm glad I like communism then 😅
Might be red and blue but that fruit Mac is probably rockin’ Yellow Dog.
This is the kind of encouragement I need, comrade 🫡
not sure if this referring to anything specifically but M$ has lots of open source stuff and also invests in Linux - just saying.
That hasn’t always been true. This meme is older than Microsoft being open source friendly.
Right right, definitely memeable
Just wasn’t sure if it was a current criticism of current people and ideologies working at Microsoft
It was their CEO's stated opinion around the turn of the millennium: https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/
Lmao that is the dumbest take on linux ive seen and it made my day
Forgot to check the community, didn’t realize they were just makin a meme
24 years ago is a long ass time ago haha
A spectre is haunting your computer
