• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    I don’t agree that the idiom implies “worse”. In trying to escape being burnt in the frying pan, you’re getting burnt in the fire. Either way, you’re getting burnt.

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      4 days ago

      You don’t get to decide how language works.

      It implies going from a bad situation to a worse one, and has from the moment it existed.

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        4 days ago

        Fine. It’s not the right idiom to express the point.

        Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.

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          I think you, and a large number of people on this site, need to accept that the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about FOSS, and many actively view it as a bad thing.

          Especially a government agency.

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              Agencies will have to share custom-developed code amongst each other in an effort to prevent duplicative software development contracts under a new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.

              That’s not what open source means.

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            4 days ago

            This isn’t about FOSS. This is about decentralization. You could make that argument on Reddit or Xitter. Not on Lemmy.

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              4 days ago

              You’re being a pedant, all while missing the point.

              The point is most people don’t care.