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Living in times of technical feudalism

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    MimicSquid
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    Would someone give more context to this submission? All I see is a short page with claims about a piece of software defending against technofeudalism. What makes this interesting?

    Would someone give more context to this submission? All I see is a short page with claims about a piece of software defending against technofeudalism. What makes this interesting?

    6 votes
    1. hungariantoast
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      Hyperbola is basically a fork of Arch Linux. The original link posted by @kjw is a news post by one of their team members, announcing a new (or newly revamped) page on the project's wiki about...

      Hyperbola is basically a fork of Arch Linux. The original link posted by @kjw is a news post by one of their team members, announcing a new (or newly revamped) page on the project's wiki about "technical feudalism", hence the link at the end of the news post:

      https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:technical_feudalism

      Wikipedia article on Hyperbola:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbola_GNU/Linux-libre


      Honestly, their hearts seem to be in the right place, but the english on that wiki page is pretty rough.

      3 votes
    2. [2]
      jcd
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      After a little readup, it is a new Linux distro. It claims to be independent, fully free, and not to use systemd.

      After a little readup, it is a new Linux distro.

      It claims to be independent, fully free, and not to use systemd.

      1 vote
      1. papasquat
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        That's not exactly a unique set of criteria. There's probably 50 distros out there that have the exact same philosophy. I don't understand what the pitch is for this post.

        That's not exactly a unique set of criteria. There's probably 50 distros out there that have the exact same philosophy. I don't understand what the pitch is for this post.

        3 votes