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Comment by mmooss

8 days ago

> You can have a hacker mindset and be totally against open source. They are orthogonal qualities.

You can write that, but I don't see it. FOSS is built for hacking, designed to empower and enable hacking. Proprietary closed-source software prevents it.

FOSS is built for hacking, but hacking is not limited for FOSS.

  • Hard to hack on closed source proprietary software! Especially if its manufacturer will sue you for publishing anything.

    • There is no open source cars, yet car and motorbike hacking is prevalent. I'm sure hardware hackers also have to deal with manufacturers.