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Comment by thaumasiotes

1 day ago

> Wanting openness in everyday tech isn't "absolutist" in itself. But the article's tone (and a lot of the FOSS movement's rhetoric) frames it as failure rather than frontier.

It is a failure. Things have been moving away from openness. A frontier would move toward it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

That’s predicated on the assumption that FOSS is preferable to the alternative- maybe it isn’t.