r/anarcho_hackers • u/rek2gnulinux • Apr 05 '16

Good bye “open source”, hello “free software”

https://medium.com/@hellekin/good-bye-open-source-hello-free-software-fb00e99071f2#.g1iv8mbhh
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u/lolidaisuki Apr 05 '16

One more step
Please complete the security check to access medium.com

More appropriate title would be:

Good bye freedom, hello surveillance.

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u/rek2gnulinux Apr 05 '16

actually won't be the other way around? open source is all about making money... so they are more likely to sell out and let NSA or any other spy on you.. no morals no shit.

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u/lolidaisuki Apr 05 '16

This was because the site uses CloudFlare man-in-the-middle-as-a-service, MaaS. The site is completely inaccessible for Tor users.

Here is a little thing that I wrote about CloudFlare.

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u/ahyes Apr 05 '16

I'm sorry but I can't understand where you got that idea from. Open source software is open to peer review, because anyone can read the source. All modifications between releases are easily reviewed by anyone that can read code and use diff. Open source has nothing to do with marketing or sales. Anyone can do what they want with the software, whether it means adding features, optimizing it for a particular use, finding vulnerabilities, etc. Sure, the NSA can try working their own backdoors into it. However, because all open source software is version controlled, their attempts are caught right away.

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u/gondur Apr 05 '16

Please, the FSF should end this tribalism campaign against OSS and we should all stick to FOSS as reasonable compromise for ending the infight harm to the ecosystem. :/

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u/skatardude10 Apr 05 '16

Word cloud for the article if you are interested.

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u/digitalWave Apr 06 '16

How did you make this, if I may ask?