• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    99% (likely more even) of the people out there don’t have a clue what software is, or remotely how it works, what it does, and what open or closed software is, let alone why it’s important.

    Most people are seriously ignorant about these topics, so obviously everyone runs with closed source.

    All the open source gods are getting older, the eff founder has cancer… I don’t really see a next generation step up like the previous one and that one was already a miracle that it had gotten us this far. We’re screwed on the software front. Eh, humanity is screwed in so many ways anyway

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      11 months ago

      It’s true that majority is unaware and doesn’t care, which is sad.

      But we shouldn’t give up. There is plenty of youth going for freedom, and while we don’t yet have RMS of our generation, we will.