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  • And again < 100.000 dollars in equipment causing billion(s) of dollars in damages

    Couple all those monitary losses with the loss of over a million able bodies men, who won’t be helping the economy anymore, the near world wide sanctions, the destruction of their oil storages and refineries and one does wonder…

    How long Russia will be able to keep it up?

    How much longer untill Russia has a coup d’etat / revolution and publicly hangs Putin?

    How many new countries will Russia break into?

    For how many decades all these counties will be fucked because Putin fucked Russia so so bad…


  • What have I ever gotten from paying my taxes?

    Except the roads of course, that goes without saying

    And okay, okay, police keeps order and makes it we have a lawful nation

    And sure, sure, firemen will always be there to protect my house from burning down but that’s nothing!

    And I had free education, but come on, isn’t that what you’d expect at the very least?

    Nothing!

    And okay, they did get me free healthcare too, fine, but that’s nothing

    Investments to promote local businesses? Fine…

    So aside from the roads, police, firemen, education, healthcare, investments, what have taxes ever done for me?

    Nothing!

    People like that feel like a Monty Python sketch




  • “The position of the FFmpeg X account is that somehow disclosing vulnerabilities is a bad thing. Google provides more assistance to open source software projects than almost any other organization, and these debates are more likely to drive away potential sponsors than to attract them.”

    Yeah slave, stop complaining get your ass back to work because I’m about to dump more obligatory work on your lap that you will fix for no pay, I don’t care you have a family to feed!

    Your complaining about not having any sponsor for the free work that we sell for millions of dollars may cause that you don’t get any sponsors!

    The entitlement and mental gymnastics here at display is insane

    Google has made billions off of open source software they got and used for free. Sure, they gave back a few fractions of a penny for each million they made with it, they gave back with adding some softwares here and there when it strategically suited them, but the simple fact is that without open source software, Google wouldn’t exist today, definitely not the way they do now.

    Hell, the internet wouldn’t exist as it does today, it would be a tiny fraction of what it is today without open source software. Open source software is amazing yet most people in the world don’t even know that it exists, that it’s a concept, and that people are doing this

    Yet there are countless companies profiting majorly from the work of others without giving back a dime. There are multinationals that profit in the billions from open source software without giving back properly or at all.

    We need an updated GPL amendment or something that requires companies to start giving back productively in some form or another once they start majorly profiting from the work of open source projects.


  • OpenSSL heart bleed, for sure

    Great example of corporations just taking from open source and not giving back a dime because fuck you, give us your work!

    I’d love to see a GPL version where if you’re a company, and you make more than x amount of profit with open source projects, that you gotta fund it with y amount, depending on your profit or something

    ALL big tech companies have gotten ginormous thanks to open source software, and though some have given back something, and some have done some funding, it’s always been such few pennies on so many dollars that it might as well have been slavery. Add to that that many times what was given back was only given back because it was a good thing, strategically, for them.

    Tech companies are abusive as fuck which made them so insanely big, powerful and rich and this nonsense has to stop

    Open source is awesome and ALL software should be open source as far as I’m concerned, but the abuse from tech corporations has to stop