>>106846974 (OP)
I'm an extremist right wing (extremist christian who believes in capital punishment for sinners and usury folks, muslims, witches, blasphemers, etc...)
I'll tell you what, I'm 100% in favor of open source, open source is like medicine, in fact I think many of the so called "copyright laws" or patents that are applied to medicine should also be applied to software.
You can patent an algorithm/software but after 5 years it's free game for all of humanity, I wouldn't want medicine to be 100% closed source in the hands of 1 company, this is why competition is good, open source means more competition, you can just fork a piece of work and modify it and do something better with it.
Imagine if apple/windows phone were the only source of phone OS, we wouldn't have a bunch of mobile applications, we would still have each phone manufacturer to release crappy OS with cheap developer support (remember symbian os by nokia?), but the "open source leftist" android changed all of that, that's why we are able to have graphene, ubuntu mobile....
Imagine a world where only MacOS and Windows exist, no linux exists.
You couldn't buy a cheap VPS because you'd have to pay for a windows/mac "server license"
Just think about it very well, open source is the continuation of the human race, is a collective effort by humanity to share knowledge, why do you guys think that old forms of software are completely lost now? old video games cannot be reproduced/emulated because of the closed source, open source guarantees the continuity of software knowledge for anybody to grab, imagine if you couldn't run your own AI LLM, how much you'd have to pay to openAI, microsoft or any other company? with open source you can just fucking run it with ollama and call it a day, what about self-hosting? you've got to comprehend that this isn't about faggots using "code of conduct", this is about being able to branch off.