This new era of tariffs and retaliatory measures may ripple through the tech sector and accelerate interest in open-source alternatives like openSUSE. Busine...

The European Commission sees open-source software as more than an IT tool. Policy makers are encouraging open-source ecosystems to drive innovation, autonomy and collaboration in a world where global trade is being redrawn.

This trade dispute highlights something most open-source advocates have known for years: open source is freedom. It’s freedom from monopolies, freedom from arbitrary pricing, and freedom from foreign influence.

  • the_wiz@feddit.org
    101·
    5 days ago

    Dead broke son of a low middle class family. …in a western country, especially in the US.

    Yeah, that IS inherited privilege. You realize, that a low middle class american family is still in the uper ~ 10 % of currently living humans?

    • Jakob Fel@retrolemmy.com
      110·
      5 days ago

      This is exactly why y’all lost, but that’s the last I’ll be contributing to this thread. As I’ve said, I’m not here for politics.

      • the_wiz@feddit.org
        61·
        5 days ago

        So, let us part with this few last words from me i write without wanting to anger you, just to with the hope you may contemplate about: “In todays age there is nothing apolitical. You are either a part of the solution… or of the problem”.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
        21·
        5 days ago

        There’s some hostile people abounding. Let them think what they will, it makes little difference to the sum of your day. I don’t expect you to respond again. I’ll respect you and your opinion just as much either way. But I hope that at the very least, you take some time to consider what you can do to help the people around you create the industries we need.

        I do agree that we needed to take drastic action in order to change the course of our country. In fact, I actually don’t like the tariffs because they’re not nearly drastic enough. The shift towards internalizing our needs should have come by empowering our people, rather than pushing away aid.

        It’s not a secret that trading internationally for 90% of our needs isn’t exactly healthy for our longevity; but you can’t take blood from a stone. The people need help to get to their next decade, their next birthday, their next check, even to their next meal for many. We should be demanding that the powers that be use their resources to create a workforce capable of doing anything, and facilitating itself. That starts with putting people to work, which means helping them off the streets so that they have an address to put on their resume at the very least.

        Have a great day.

        • Jakob Fel@retrolemmy.com
          11·
          5 days ago

          In keeping with another post where I ended my arguments here, I won’t debate the point any further but guys: this post is how you conduct a discussion like a mature adult. Learn from it.