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"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint (vitalik.eth.limo)
submitted 1 month ago by pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author's response to most concerns regarding open source?

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Yup, I'm the same way. If I could work in FOSS, I'd be happy to take a pay cut, but FOSS doesn't pay anywhere near good enough. So it'll remain a hobby.

As such, I'm pretty reasonable about what needs to be open source, and what's fine being proprietary. For example:

  • OS - must be FOSS
  • games - proprietary is fine, but no privileged access (e.g. kernel level anti-cheat)
  • web browser - must be FOSS
  • web services - proprietary is fine, provided they don't collect a creepy amount of info about me

Basically, the more risk there is of a security issue, the more I expect it to be FOSS. And I'm willing to help out too. I've submitted patches to Lemmy and other FOSS projects I use, and I'll donate something similar to what I'd pay for a proprietary app for certain projects.