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1. Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 08:27:22 JST Gabe

   What radicalized you into the #FOSS mindset?

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 08:27:22 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @gabriel For me, it was very gradual. Hard for me to pinpoint anything specific.

     Though I've always felt the anticapitalist roots in my bones!

   • Urusan (urusan@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 15:19:14 JST Urusan

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     @gabriel It was a slow process throughout my youth.

     I never had much money, so buying an OS for $100+ was prohibitive. Plus, you had to call up Microsoft and ask permission to move your license, what was all that about?

     Since we lived through the 90s and aughts, we had a lot of obsolete hardware floating around, so why not make something out of it? Linux was good for servers, so that's what I used.

     Eventually, it was easier to use Linux than Windows, so I stopped using Windows.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Urusan (urusan@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 15:19:14 JST Urusan

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     @gabriel As time progressed, I was becoming a professional software developer and it became clear to me that FOSS was the way to go, both for individuals and organizations.

     How could you maintain something built on top of closed source software?

     The advantages just kept stacking up over time, and nowadays it's a foregone conclusion.

     More recently, I've veered left politically, which has just reinforced my FOSS stance further.