{"ancestors":[],"descendants":[{"id":"111882701012643708","created_at":"2024-02-06T04:42:14.494Z","in_reply_to_id":"111882498931832704","in_reply_to_account_id":"111243333718206142","sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"public","language":"en","uri":"https://toolsforthought.social/users/boris/statuses/111882701012643708","url":"https://toolsforthought.social/@boris/111882701012643708","replies_count":0,"reblogs_count":5,"favourites_count":8,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003eI’m also not going to engage with these two tropes:\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1) \u003ca href=\"https://toolsforthought.social/tags/opensource\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003eopensource\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e is free as in fix it yourself (you could pay to fix it, or pay someone to maintain it)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2) opensource is badly designed and terrible and only for nerds (the license of the software has nothing to do with its design)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can imagine and bring better futures into being. 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