• blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    To quote my well known journalist friend after switching from twitter “what’s that? Oh, that open source stuff? Hahaha nah bruh, mastodon is silly”

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      2 hours ago

      Reminds me of a meeting my co-worker and I had with the IT staff of a company that is a customer using research instruments in our facility. The meeting was to ask us to enable data synchronization through SharePoint. (We’re a Linux shop.) We asked what the issue was with getting their data files with SFTP. They said, “It’s open source.”

      Then, a few beats of silence as it sinks in for us that there is no next step in the chain of logic. That is the totality of their objection.