I have been using and writing exclusively open source software for going on a decade now. I left multiple employers because I refused to use or write proprietary code for them for any amount of money. Anyone that wants my skillsets needs to accept the results will be open. A lot fewer people are making fun of me for it these days.
I was shocked YC accepted my fully FOSS company, but YC and a lot of investors realize proprietary software is no longer a moat, and some VCs -exclusively- fund FOSS companies now seeing them as the future.
I cannot express the amount of joy and hope it gives me in this dark world that every proprietary binary anyone has ever found useful or entertaining is about to be reverse engineered and have all the tracking bullshit users do not want removed. Only useful or entertaining features will remain.
This is about to completely break a proprietary and surveillance obsessed software industry that deserves to be broken.
I am thankful to have a front row seat in Silicon Valley, and look forward to watching every single company be forced to Open Source or die.
I was shocked YC accepted my fully FOSS company, but YC and a lot of investors realize proprietary software is no longer a moat, and some VCs -exclusively- fund FOSS companies now seeing them as the future.
I cannot express the amount of joy and hope it gives me in this dark world that every proprietary binary anyone has ever found useful or entertaining is about to be reverse engineered and have all the tracking bullshit users do not want removed. Only useful or entertaining features will remain.
This is about to completely break a proprietary and surveillance obsessed software industry that deserves to be broken.
I am thankful to have a front row seat in Silicon Valley, and look forward to watching every single company be forced to Open Source or die.