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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once again, it leaves me in awe of just how much power we can get from FOSS.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

FOSS/FLOSS is all about empowering users and allowing them to do whatever they want, whereas proprietary software tries to take power away from the user. It's kinda sad that many people don't understand this.