The problem is capitalism, not which kernel everything runs. And the reason FOSS isn’t universal is also capitalism.
It’s more complicated to make money producing FOSS, capitalism or not. Lots of reasonable developers would still choose closed source even without capitalism.
Dirty secret is that FOSS is a product of capitalism and nothing else.
A bunch of nerds being allowed to own and control the means of production created personal computers while the central planners in both communist countries and big companies both thought it was a dumb idea. A bunch of nerds being allowed to own and control the means of production meant that someone could decide to release their product free with source code. Private ownership of intellectual property such as source code allowed people to release their privately owned code under a license specifying that changes must be made public.
From there, the proof in the pudding is in the eating. How many FOSS projects do you use, and who made them?
Making money is a capitalist adjacent idea. The premise that we need money to figure out how to allocate resources is foolish
I’m still waiting for someone to propose in detail an alternative.
Yeah, that’s the problem. We don’t have the requisite technology to build a Star Trek utopia. If only we did…
Well, if everything ran Linux…
The premise that we need money to figure out how to allocate resources is foolish
Money not necessarily, we need to calculate costs (and minimize it) in distributed fashion.
And the only reasonably successful way we’ve found so far for doing so is…money.
There’s a bunch of ways to allocate resources but ideas like money have an advantage of allowing people to choose how they live.
A good example would be that not every person would be satisfied living in an apartment in the city. Some prefer living more rural for any number of reasons. Some want to be inside playing video games and others outside biking on a mountain. Some want to be able to do both. Giving them the ability to choose small apartment in the city or bigger house in the woods is important for happiness.
The biggest issue is the discrepancy of resource allocation between individuals not the method that allocation is done on paper.
Linux itself does nothing for desktop computing, you also need GNU and the rest of the free software suit to better the world
I don’t see anyone outside so it checks out.
They are all learning how to use the terminal.
They are inside trying to compile the software thst opens the automatic doors.
Sudo apt install sliding-doors if that doesn’t work check the snap store, best I can do 🤣
They will die there, because they need a slightly older version of some minor library for compatibility, and nobody cared enough to continue hosting it.
Real
> every building by zaha hadid
> still not a walkable City
I would not agree
It was all fun and games until the wifi driver didn’t compile…
“But if we put all the world’s shares into Linux, the other Kernel Patron Units would be incapacitated!”
… I doubt anyone will get this reference.
No place for bazaar. Looks more like corporations wet dream.
I mean, you could put one inside a building, I guess. It’s really just a very downscale mall.
they miss the statue of Linus Torvalds
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Is that image supposed to represent an utopia?
Its urban hell, but a few more trees
Ahh… It’s Gentoo
So you mean we would have weird useless concrete structures everywhere? I doubt it
No esthetics wise it would be worse than the USSR
No way. Plasma is beautiful.
Linux kernel
Nah bro, chrome OS is fucking ridiculous not to mention android too.
We need the other linux not just kernel.
Competition and choice is good, it keeps the ecosystem healthy and resilient.
but GNU?
It’s just that nobody gnu
No, because everyone would be sitting around jacking each other off about using linux, if current trends are to be believed.
There’s a weird secretive compound on the edge of town. If you go up to the gate and try to talk to them they just reply “I use Arch BTW”.
