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< Refugee incoming from corpweb.
Welcome!
I feel like there was a period of time in the late 2000s and early 2010s where it felt like FOSS was gonna take over? Everyone was using Android (pre-Google!), Firefox, Kodi/XBMC, Adium/Pidgin...
Then the CorporateWeb™ swooped in and took over. What a shame.
~skedaddle3644 wrote (thread):
I highly agree, things seemed good back then, there was the air of something bad happening, but I thought it would never come into fruition.
FOSS, thankfully, does still exist, there are loads are really exiting projects out there, including Kodi to install and play with. I have very fond memories of Pidgin!
I feel that even though the CorporateWeb™ seems to have taken over, it hasn't, yet… We are still free to do our thing and ignore it.