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Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source (news.opensuse.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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The European Commission sees open-source software as more than an IT tool. Policy makers are encouraging open-source ecosystems to drive innovation, autonomy and collaboration in a world where global trade is being redrawn.

This trade dispute highlights something most open-source advocates have known for years: open source is freedom. It’s freedom from monopolies, freedom from arbitrary pricing, and freedom from foreign influence.

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[–] Kissaki 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a ~400 pages manual

🤌 🤘

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Gotta love a good manual. I still have a DOS 6.0 manual lying around, even though I can use kcharselect to look up ANSI characters now.