this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
877 points (96.8% liked)

Technology

60082 readers
3344 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
877
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
submitted 10 months ago by Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
204 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Open source software solves that kind of hidden bullshit.

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

Exactly why I left that company.

Specifically free (libre) licences, as permissive licences allow corporations to improve/adapt the software without contributing back to the community.

I only work on software with GPL compatible licences now.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And open source software is explicitly anti-capitalist.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

free software is. open source is an attempt to sell free software out to capitalist interest.

eric raymond and the OSI are not good.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are many forms of free and/or open source software.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but open source isn't anticapitalist

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I guess the original statement was too broad, but any FOSS using a GPL license effectively is. I guess not anti-capitalist though, but un-capitalist. It doesn't try to remove capitalism, it tries to be seperate from it.