Post #1434568
2026-02-26 10:32 UTC
@mxk It's naive when you stand alone. Just as it is naive to call a single waterdrop a sea.
When individuals unite, it becomes a movement which can cause a change.
How else do you think Linux became the dominant server OS on the Internet? It all started with with a single individual saying:
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Now it is available for lots of platforms and used "everywhere". There are tons of such examples.
People must unite. And even "going with the flow" of what "everyone else uses" is exactly the same thing. You've just joined a different movement.
If nobody does nothing, nothing will ever change.
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@mxk@hachyderm.io 2026-02-26 10:44
@dazo Linux got adoption due to its features, not because of politics. Some people might work on it out of idealism, but wide adoption and financing come from Linux actually being a useful project.
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@mystixa@ravenation.club 2026-02-28 06:40
@dazo @mxk That has nothing to do with uniting. That has to do with decades of tinkering, and then some huge corporations seeing $ signs if they took over key areas of research, and then adoption in commercial spaces because it was free and other software was pricey.