""The "end of history" hangover is real. ""

This is the real issue. FOSS was born out of a utopian era in 60's-2000s' where the US was still a beacon of hope. That is fundamentally impossible in todays world of ultra-shark-world-eat-you capitalism and global race to the bottom.

If it didn't already exist, FOSS would not be able to get off the ground today. FOSS couldn't start and survive today. Its survival is in jeopardy.

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bigyabai an hour ago | parent [-]

FOSS was born because the cost of sharing information rapidly approached nothing. BBS and Usenet were loaded with shared software, simply because it was easy to share and there was incredible demand for it.

FOSS doesn't need the US or 1980s counterculture to succeed. It just needs cheap disk space and someone willing to share their code. The price of storage and internet continues to fall, and I think FOSS will be fine as long as that continues.

	▲	FrustratedMonky 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, and there will continue to be hackers that love programming and want to share. But the article was kind of about how to control access, the licensing, and bad actors. And that is out the window, anybody can steal your code regardless of the license, and North Korea can use it in missiles if they want, nothing can stop it if it is openly shared.