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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

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[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it won't touch projects like KDE.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I am a big fan of KDE, but having qt's role in mind I wouldn't be too sure. I think they already try to enforce tracking there.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Qt is exactly why I'm so sure. They made sure that there was a legal agreement that Qt would always stay open source or else they'd get the ability to make it available under a BSD license: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/

That's a project that understands the entanglement and doesn't allow itself to be taken over.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

That's amazing news. Thank you for clarifying