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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.

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[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unless they switch to running BSD, it's all crap.

[–] 3h5Hne7t1K@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The isc/bsd2 license does not protect the user

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're not a tech person, you're an ideologue, so you wouldn't understand the culture around ISC. If a company wants security, constancy, and longecity, BSD is the only thing to use.

Choosing between Windows and BSD, which would you prefer everybody use? There are companies that already banned GPL software from company computers, what should they use?

[–] Renohren@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what you are saying. Can I assume that you have never touched BSD, know nothing about how it functions?

[–] 3h5Hne7t1K@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, im not even going to respond the first part. I love the bsd's as well, from a technical standpoint. From a licensing standpoint, not so much (i see the value in a short license, though).

Im not concerned by what these companies use or do not use. Im concerned about protecting my, and other 'common good' software with a license that strictly prohibits user exploatation. The GPL does this perfectly.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 year ago

GPL is evil. GPL is poison. You're an ideologie. You are vapid of the original UNIX cultural mindset. It's all mushy feelings you care about, not best tools to accomplish the work. You have no experience how to setup a BSD desktop. If you had a job as network gateway admin for employee network services, your argument would sound very different. You might as well as well say GPL fills my heart with so much love, I wish I could make passionate love to the GPL"

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 year ago

To make it easier and more flexible, I would suggest FreeBSD on desktop and servers. For routers or firewall, there's nothing else but OpenBSD.