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how would we replace those, hard to replace parts, made by big tech? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 14 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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like for example: react, C# WebM, WebP, av1, and many more

some parts that big tech made, are really hard to replace, due to them, being complex or fundamental to a speific system

how would we replace them (i hope there are existing replacements for the examples i talked about)?

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[–] 23 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

Not everything made by big tech is bad.

React is great. It's open source. The governance is reasonable. Why should we replace it?

WebP, WebM and AV1 are great open technical formats. We should use them.

If a standard is truly open, then you should judge it on its technical merits, not some weird purity test about where it came from.

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 children)

    sorry to say it, but that maybe wrong, because its big tech, once there are no actual non corporate competitors, they will ruin it

    we should know that when we do depend on something too much, it gets ruined

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  • [–] 12 points 13 hours ago

    it's open source though. just clone the previous version and keep building on that. that's how we got valkey, postgresql, libreoffice, webkit, jenkins, mariadb, all the bsd's, plex, xorg, wordpress, inkscape, openssh, apache, etc etc etc

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    Methinks you misunderstand what "open" means.

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 13 hours ago* (3 children)

    Open Source, Does Not Guarantee That it wont be enshittifed, and also nobody would have the resources to build a fork without funding

    and even if we do fork it, it is a entire city's worth of work

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    • [–] 12 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    you ca replace C# with Db

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    • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago

    Slowly and with an open source offering. But also by making the alternatives so easy that choosing proprietary is actually harder.

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    [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    On a big tech question session, eh, OP?

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    [–] 3 points 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago

    This is pretty off-base for what OP is asking about.

    React and C# are open source.

    WebM, WebP, and AV1 are open standards that have mature and well developed open source implementations.

    Literally every item OP asked about is already OSS. OP just doesn't like that they originated at Meta, Microsoft, and Google.

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    • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago

    If it's open-source or patent-free, no need to replace those things.

    C# WebM

    What?

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