Oct 17, 2026, 1:27 PMnetbsd isn’t necessarily compromised, but they absolutely aren’t your friends. you don’t know them.
if we want the FOSS we all imagined, where the marginalized come together to share and contribute to a software ecosystem that can benefit humanity for many generations, it’ll involve rather more of a fight than politely switching to another OS. there isn’t a technical solution to what’s happening right now. I’m sorry.
Oct 17, 2026, 1:31 PMthe FOSS we imagined was real. otherwise we wouldn’t have all imagined it.
but the people who promised it to us have all failed to protect it. all of the systems and all of the protections we were told about were worthless.
all of them are currently trying to accomplish the switch portion of a bait and switch. but they don’t represent us or our labor unless we let them.
Oct 17, 2026, 2:04 PM@zzt The very things I warned about 25 years ago, that buddying up to corporate interests for accessibility would recreate the very monster we were running away from, have come to pass.
@zzt unless we fix the social problems that lead to this it will happen with netbsd, and the next thing, and the next thing, and the...