Comment by renegat0x0
15 days ago
- there is no escape from digital techno feudalism
- you will have to obey corporations
- sooner or later everything will work using digital ID, or some other IDs
- sooner or later phones, PCs, browsers, will be locked in
- majority of populations will have no problems about that, aka golden cage
- I do not such a future exists when it will not look like this
- I am uncertain what is the future of open source. I think it also will be regulated by accounts, digital IDs. You will not be able to participate in open source without verification
Open source on a large scale is a double edged sword because it is at odds with an economic reasoning that it prevents the realization of monetary value provided by this software as profit. A crackdown on OSS would be devastating, but also not totally surprising to me in the current political landscape.
> I do not [believe] such a future exists when it will not look like this
This is the deepest root of the problem. Decades of psychological conditioning took effect.
No future is 100% predefined, my friend. Please do believe.