Re:What is the greatest problem that FOSS has solved?
by 0815test on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:58PM
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1. Software piracy
2. Keeping software projects as a going concern well beyond the lifetime of any single architecture or platform. We routinely run FLOSS code from the 1980s (~30 to 40 years ago!) on modern platforms, which would be altogether impossible if that code was proprietary!
3. An emerging problem: spyware software that "phones home" for user-hostile purposes.
2. Keeping software projects as a going concern well beyond the lifetime of any single architecture or platform. We routinely run FLOSS code from the 1980s (~30 to 40 years ago!) on modern platforms, which would be altogether impossible if that code was proprietary!
3. An emerging problem: spyware software that "phones home" for user-hostile purposes.