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Global Switch Day is upon us! (piefed.social)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Open source is all about fragmentation. It's a natural result of freedom.

Sure, if everybody pulled the same direction on the same project and successfully coordinated their cooperative effort while agreeing on everything and also having the perfect™ vision for the project, that would be great.

But that's just not gonna happen, for a million reasons. So instead, we get diversity, and people can use the software that fits them, and develop what they're interested in in the language of their choosing. Thank god.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And why it we'll never ever be mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Open source?!

Open source software is everywhere. Even freaking chromium is open source. Android is open source. WebKit is open source. Pretty much the entire web runs on Linux servers. Even gamers buy devices running Linux now.

Is it not mainstream because people don't realize it's open source while using it? Isn't it rather that it is mainstream when people use it without even realizing?