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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 432" data-source="post: 52109" data-attributes="member: 432">Normies can&#039;t understand ig that linux was made for the free software movement. It was the final component that the gnu project lacked to run as a fullblown unix replacement at the time for students who didn&#039;t want to get a loicense.Back then the monopolies were really bad and we were nearing a point where taking a piece of code, changing it up and releasing it or let alone selling it would have been completely impossible and unheard of due to draconic copyright enforcement. It pretty much was! to those who weren&#039;t in the know, for example majority of newer generation students at MIT and what have you, at the time. That&#039;s where hackers (the original meaning, not crackers as the media began to conflate them soon enough) started finally writing programs without licensing cancer so you could actually run an operating system on your computer not a black box for the first time since a really long time.Now, the free software movement is dead because the newer generations grew up reaping all it&#039;s fruits and they already had a mindset change to where nobody takes copyright laws that seriously anymore, they no longer have much power over programmers if any at all and all the young people starting to write programs today are just thinking about the code they&#039;re writing, not the licensing, as how it should be. Originally it was like this before corporations saw computing was profitable and got too much control, I mean.Richard Stallman was one of the hackers in universities relentlessy writing programs to liberate your computer today, so you should thank him. Of course, the issue is, and the only one, is that, he thought just writing unencumbered by copyright code would not be enough, so he introduced the concept of copyleft which is copyright that acts against itself essentially. But it&#039;s cancerous, and now to this day pesters many programmers who just want to code. That&#039;s the reason why BSD&#039;s philosophy is superior, and due to it the codebase is generally much more cleaner and nice.tl;dr freedom - THAT is the reason for linux usage. Not anything else whatsoever. If you missed this, you&#039;re just a poser larping to seem like you&#039;re some patrician found some &#039;niche&#039; operating system <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite204" alt=":kannafacepalm:" title="KannaFacepalm&nbsp; &nbsp; :kannafacepalm:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":kannafacepalm:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deleted member 432, post: 52109, member: 432"] Normies can't understand ig that linux was made for the free software movement. It was the final component that the gnu project lacked to run as a fullblown unix replacement at the time for students who didn't want to get a loicense. Back then the monopolies were really bad and we were nearing a point where taking a piece of code, changing it up and releasing it or let alone selling it would have been completely impossible and unheard of due to draconic copyright enforcement. It pretty much was! to those who weren't in the know, for example majority of newer generation students at MIT and what have you, at the time. That's where hackers (the original meaning, not crackers as the media began to conflate them soon enough) started finally writing programs without licensing cancer so you could actually run an operating system on your computer not a black box for the first time since a really long time. Now, the free software movement is dead because the newer generations grew up reaping all it's fruits and they already had a mindset change to where nobody takes copyright laws that seriously anymore, they no longer have much power over programmers if any at all and all the young people starting to write programs today are just thinking about the code they're writing, not the licensing, as how it should be. Originally it was like this before corporations saw computing was profitable and got too much control, I mean. Richard Stallman was one of the hackers in universities relentlessy writing programs to liberate your computer today, so you should thank him. Of course, the issue is, and the only one, is that, he thought just writing unencumbered by copyright code would not be enough, so he introduced the concept of copyleft which is copyright that acts against itself essentially. But it's cancerous, and now to this day pesters many programmers who just want to code. That's the reason why BSD's philosophy is superior, and due to it the codebase is generally much more cleaner and nice. tl;dr [I]freedom[/I] - THAT is the reason for linux usage. Not anything else whatsoever. If you missed this, you're just a poser larping to seem like you're some patrician found some 'niche' operating system :kannafacepalm: [/QUOTE]

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