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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are many forms of free and/or open source software.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

but open source isn't anticapitalist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I guess the original statement was too broad, but any FOSS using a GPL license effectively is. I guess not anti-capitalist though, but un-capitalist. It doesn't try to remove capitalism, it tries to be seperate from it.