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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same.
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@jakob I wouldn’t say “microsoft has won” just yet. Plenty of legal challenges to open-source have occurred and failed in the past, this is a proposed law in one region, and a lot of these community open-source repositories break the law anyway, by distributing clearly patent encumbered software, because it would be very unprofitable to sue them. (Only corporate-sponsored distros like Fedora and Clear Linux really care about complying with FOSS-hostile laws like software patents, mostly because they ARE profitable to sue.)
Definitely don’t give up on your beliefs just because it seems tough to follow them, there is always something to do. Fight against laws that force centralization like this. Keep developing your software until there’s a direct, credible legal threat, and possibly after if you’re open to civil disobedience.