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What kind of problems would you like to see technology solve? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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It's so easy shitting on techbro VC nonsense that only separates us from our humanity to sell adspace. What actual problems do you want technology to solve?

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[–] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.

wait really?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Yes. Consider Android for a concrete example. Android is an Open Source project, but to build a completely working Android phone with all the features a user would expect from that requires a significant amount of nonFree Google software. Further, Android devices can be (and in fact usually are) sold in a condition which deliberately locks away the user's ability to examine and modify the code running on them.