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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED(youtu.be)

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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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Open source software solves that kind of hidden bullshit.

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muix@lemmy.sdf.org
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Exactly why I left that company.

Specifically free (libre) licences, as permissive licences allow corporations to improve/adapt the software without contributing back to the community.

I only work on software with GPL compatible licences now.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip
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And open source software is explicitly anti-capitalist.

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HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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free software is. open source is an attempt to sell free software out to capitalist interest.

eric raymond and the OSI are not good.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip
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There are many forms of free and/or open source software.

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