Good article. These things are definitely true in the stage of big tech and normie tech, however I’m so glad that the baseline for a large portion of us still hasn’t shifted, and in some respects, has actually shifted in reverse, to become better over time
For example, open source wasn’t really a thing in the 90s and early 2000s to the scale that it is today. Companies could generally be trusted to not be literal active spyware.
But today, more than ever, soooo much software and code is totally open and you can build and compile it all yourself. You can now run your entire tech life on code that you build, compile, verify, and sign by yourself. You could not do that in the “good old days”.
open source wasn’t really a thing in the 90s and early 2000s
Truly written as someone who wasn’t alive back then and just makes stuff up.
Open-source - which was called free software back then - was very much alive and totally a thing since forever, and especially in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I learned all I know with free software in the 80s. Linux came out in 91 and was a pure product of open source: Minix - the forerunner of Linux - was a fully open-source OS created in 87, and GNU had been around since 83.
Please read up on things you don’t know before posting nonsense.
I’ve been an internet user since 1994, and I can tell you this. Unnecessary hostility like this has always a thing from the very beginning. Even if the OP made a mistake, not saying that he did, why be a dick about it? Just add to the information pile.
That’s my PSA.
I know it was. I’m saying it wasn’t as mainstream. i never said it didnt exist lol. chill boomer.
And boomer is telling you it was mainstream. Very much so. The only reason it wasn’t as developed as it is today is because computing wasn’t as developed as it is today.
okay man I won’t hurt your feelings anymore don’t worry. You were there in 1942, I believe you
You’re a rude patronizing prick, that’s for damn sure.
hehe
Canonical was the early 2000s. Redhat was the early 90s. Inspire was the early 2000s. Collabara was mid-2000s. Ximiam was late 90s.
Not only was open source pretty popular, it had a not-insignificant group of companies working on it.
He’s very much correct.
i know it was, and i know he’s right, open source has always been alive and well, but not for the everyday Joe. that’s why i suffixed my sentence.
Meta open sourced their LLM for example recently, Llama. Sorry but i dont see that happening back then. Linux Desktop is growing rapidly and now highly usable by the common person. there is an open source linux app for everything now. accessible Open source encryption. Open source phone apps are mainstream now. easily accessible instant e2ee messaging would’ve been future spy movie stuff 20 years ago.
it’s easier than ever to use almost 0% proprietary software.
I thought people could pick up on my main idea but seems people are too stupid to read an entire sentence. or without sperging out trying to cry about nothing. so much insecurity geez. this is the typical midwit brain. unable to digest main ideas, and screaming over details and half sentences as if im speaking in absolutes. your iq is 105 probably
Wow, you are not only unable to accept that you’re wrong, you make references to exactly what others have talked about, and then you act like a dick about it.
Your comments apparently add nothing of value, so… Goodbye.
Yet another example of unnecessary hostility? Just disagree, for God’s sake. I’m not really sure what the actual argument is about, just chill.
Nah, try reading through his messages in order. He gets nasty right away, as he did to another who pointed out his mistake. I figured I’d provide some supporting context, he again behaved like a dick. So I blocked him.
Doesn’t seem problematic to me at all.
He had a bad day, just a little angy hehe
