#opensourcepiracy — Public Fediverse posts
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Me, in 2021: "piracy of open source makes no sense"
Me, in 2026: "They did it. They fucking did it. Look at what they fucking did. With various states pushing age verification and biometric identification laws on developers, and distro developers complying far too easily, now it has actually become *necessary* to pirate Open Source software"
Two *very* notable examples of developers who are *already* adding fascism to FOSS: #systemd (as expected) and XDG / #freedesktop .
[1] https://lemmy.world/comment/22746018
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