Thoughts-on-Open-Source.md

 I learned by 2004 that Silicon Valley was up to no good. I wound up playing World of Warcraft for years simply because no one I knew actually wanted to create quality software for people without abusive hidden agendas.
 
-At that time, me and everyone I knew understood open source to just mean "the source code is available". This is coming from someone who spent 6.5 years at Yahoo! utilizing open source software every day of my life. I programmed using emacs and Linux. My servers ran on FreeBSD and Linux. The software I wrote (Yahoo! Games) was enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world and I had quite enjoyed just making good stuff. I had no idea the OSI even existed.
+At that time, me and everyone I knew understood open source to just mean "the source code is available". This is coming from someone who spent 6.5 years at Yahoo! utilizing open source software every day of my life. I programmed using emacs and Linux. My servers ran on FreeBSD and Linux. The software I wrote was enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world and I had quite enjoyed just making good stuff. I had no idea the OSI even existed.
 
 After years of WoW, LoL, random gigs, and personal programming pursuits, I started putting the concept of FUTO together around 2017. The goal of FUTO was to remedy the abuses of big tech through software development. The primary tenet being that the people need to be in control of the computers they own, not companies and governments. None of my friends in Silicon Valley were interested.