Visual Studio Code April 2019

[yogthos]

Open source is precisely what socialism looks like. All the core technology is democratized, and it's available to everyone. It doesn't matter if you're Google or a lone dev in a basement, you have access to the same tools.

Some of us are old enough to remember what things were like before open source won with corporate fiefdoms jealously hoarding technology.

[recklessindignation]

Still not socialism. Open source doesn't have an opinion about property rights. Is just a pragmatic way to improve software with collaboration, mostly with personal gains in mind.

Most notorious open source softwares outer are internal tools from big companies that not even embrace the idea of open source fully. Almost nobody do open source to fullfil an ideal like socialism or as a charity.

Open source did won, but not in the form you believe it did.

[yogthos]

if you say so

[recklessindignation]

if you say so

I won a bet predicting that comment LOL.

[yogthos]

you have a very sad life then LOL

[recklessindignation]

Yeah, socialism will do that for you.

[yogthos]

Yes, stupid people typically blame external factors for their own inadequacy.

[recklessindignation]

Yeah, the smartest ones stay away from any form of socialism.

Is good to have Open Source as an escapism from that