Yep but I was more addressing the metaphor of Linux vs apple and I guess Unix in bitcoin terms.
I guess bitcoins the original open version in this case.
Do you think Linux free and open source being...
I don't think I understand your first paragraph. What do you mean by ' bitcoins the original open version'? Bitcoin is still open source .
As for the second question: no. Linux is not challenged by google. Its development is influenced through The Linux foundation and not just by Goggle, but also by IBM, Apple, even Valve and many others , but not its status as open source project. That is safe. As for Android... Not great, yes. But linux will stay open. It has nothing to do with it. Think of it as screws you use when you build a table. Table can be as proprioatery as you want, but the screws are still 'open'.
What is imho more problemaic is the new laws in Califronia and elsewhere which attempt to control how the operating system starts and want it to be able to run only when you prove you're of full age. This is direct meddling into projects and the only resuzlt of these laws is that smaller developers and smaller projects can't ever compete because the burden on them is too heavy compared to a burden to a large company. I bet these laws are the results of bullshitters in politics who are now competing who is more 'child-friendly' becaue they don't wanna look like they are Epstein connected in any way. It's a classic result of paranoia we allowed to have come from the Epstein files and the result is fcking things up for everybody just to pretend a poltician or party cares. THAT.. is a real proiblem and it's going on RIGHT NOW! And instead of us all organizing and smashing these stzupidites down we're still obsessed with counting completely out of context names in Epstein files and competing which side has a smaller number. It's like we're all children who were thrown a flask of milk and now we're drinking from it and accusing each other and applauding every stupid 'bold solution' like the one mentioned.
See... these people in politicsa are complete idiots in regards to software and open source and they have no idea what they are actually doing which is why they are faaaaar more dnagerous than even Google''s AOSP enshitification.
We here on Nostr disagree about everything and that's ok, but we should really agree about this one and take some organised acton while these laws can still be stopped. In USA there's now 3 states doing it, reporterdly another 17 are 'thinking about it'. Here in Europe... I can just imagine what kind of lunatic laws they'll try to implement.
Think about what meddling into code by politics acually means... It means that once we are forced to insert this, we will have ti insert other stuff down the road. It always starts like a 'good thing' .. 'think of the children!' bullshit because people fall for it. And 10 years later.. it's spyware because 'think of the children' expends by then.
IMHO this should be number one problem for us because it's happening right now.
At least that's how I see it.
As for the second question: no. Linux is not challenged by google. Its development is influenced through The Linux foundation and not just by Goggle, but also by IBM, Apple, even Valve and many others , but not its status as open source project. That is safe. As for Android... Not great, yes. But linux will stay open. It has nothing to do with it. Think of it as screws you use when you build a table. Table can be as proprioatery as you want, but the screws are still 'open'.
What is imho more problemaic is the new laws in Califronia and elsewhere which attempt to control how the operating system starts and want it to be able to run only when you prove you're of full age. This is direct meddling into projects and the only resuzlt of these laws is that smaller developers and smaller projects can't ever compete because the burden on them is too heavy compared to a burden to a large company. I bet these laws are the results of bullshitters in politics who are now competing who is more 'child-friendly' becaue they don't wanna look like they are Epstein connected in any way. It's a classic result of paranoia we allowed to have come from the Epstein files and the result is fcking things up for everybody just to pretend a poltician or party cares. THAT.. is a real proiblem and it's going on RIGHT NOW! And instead of us all organizing and smashing these stzupidites down we're still obsessed with counting completely out of context names in Epstein files and competing which side has a smaller number. It's like we're all children who were thrown a flask of milk and now we're drinking from it and accusing each other and applauding every stupid 'bold solution' like the one mentioned.
See... these people in politicsa are complete idiots in regards to software and open source and they have no idea what they are actually doing which is why they are faaaaar more dnagerous than even Google''s AOSP enshitification.
We here on Nostr disagree about everything and that's ok, but we should really agree about this one and take some organised acton while these laws can still be stopped. In USA there's now 3 states doing it, reporterdly another 17 are 'thinking about it'. Here in Europe... I can just imagine what kind of lunatic laws they'll try to implement.
Think about what meddling into code by politics acually means... It means that once we are forced to insert this, we will have ti insert other stuff down the road. It always starts like a 'good thing' .. 'think of the children!' bullshit because people fall for it. And 10 years later.. it's spyware because 'think of the children' expends by then.
IMHO this should be number one problem for us because it's happening right now.
At least that's how I see it.
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