When I've posted on Lemmy before, the pointy brackets < ... > sometimes don't show, nor will anything in between them, so I chose a different set not knowing what they are.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I think the Japanese use them when they're quoting something. I could be wrong, though.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Calling open source communism aside, capitalism and those who benefit the most from it probably absolutely HATE the largest open source projects because the more people use those, the less likely they are to use their telemetry based spy/bloatware.

Imagine trying to make a paid video/audio file player in today's day and age and going up against the titan that is VLC. Or an audio editor/playback program in similar fashion to Audacity. Two of the biggest open source programs that I imagine just about anyone who has used a computer has probably heard of and/or used at some point.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, Reaper is more popular with musicians than Audacity, and it follows the Winrar business model

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Didn't know that. Fair enough for them.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 months ago

actually, communists program free/libre and reject open source as corporate 🤓
/hj

[–] luciole 9 points 3 months ago

That guy is coding open source software on a 1998 bondi blue iMac.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

not sure if this referring to anything specifically but M$ has lots of open source stuff and also invests in Linux - just saying.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/projects/

[–] ayla 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It was their CEO's stated opinion around the turn of the millennium: https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Forgot to check the community, didn’t realize they were just makin a meme

24 years ago is a long ass time ago haha

[–] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Lmao that is the dumbest take on linux ive seen and it made my day

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Oh gee whiz, I'm glad I like communism then 😅

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

A spectre is haunting your computer

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Microsoft advertising open source? Maybe open source isn't that good after all?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Programmers of the world, unite!

[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

Remember: loose lips sink ships.