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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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If Open Source is so great... (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Closed sauce app isn't always better, and big corp don't have 'all stars' teams (but do have marketing teams) - the question is why the fossy app doesn't change UI design every few months (mostly in stupid ways) :D.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 3 days ago

Honestly, I have more free and open source apps and programs on my PC and phone than not because the exact opposite of this meme has been my experience.

[–] islands@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Well, for one Lemmy has zero respect for privacy. You can't even delete a comment. A comment is eternal. At least you can do that on reddit.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Slightly?

Also, let's say it's truly just slightly, how long was it way worse before it became slightly worse?

[–] grandel@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because you are the product, not the software that you use.

I think a lot of paid commercial software is significantly better than FLOSS

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

you are thinking of SaaS not Free Software.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Name paid commercial software to replace grep

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[–] eatham@aussie.zone 0 points 3 days ago

Repost, but the post is good enough so I don't care

[–] Hoohoo@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago

Hah! Like a corporation will improve a product when they're milking it out for a decade.

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