Post AwtiTX7HvUv3XcsIC0 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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 (DIR) Post #AwtJlKovsrH9lRgGpc by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-08-06T11:14:26Z
       
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       @mdhughes @ramin_hal9001 As the little guy (two-person not for profit), it doesn’t annoy me at all. Because I have no issues with releasing my code under A/GPL.It must only annoy those who want to profit from the code without similarly giving back. And large corporations who see liberal open source licenses as another means of privitasing the commons.The most common complaint I see is “why can’t I take this freely available code and use it in my proprietary system?” Umm, well, that’s by design.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwtOREPCWaWrqbsW8m by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-08-06T12:06:40Z
       
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       @mdhughes @ramin_hal9001 It’s the opposite of selfish.It’s saying “if you take from the commons, give back to the commons.” It’s protecting the same freedom you benefited from.It does mean that you can’t something someone has shared freely, add it to your proprietary system, and keep any value you add on top to yourself. Which is what, I’d argue, is actually selfish.Also, yes, trillion-dollar corporations are too big to police and steal at their whim. That doesn’t make it right.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwtPNF9zsOdqz5QfKa by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-08-06T12:16:56Z
       
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       @mdhughes @ramin_hal9001 Oh yeah, I’ve heard of Microsoft TinyBasicWeb, it was on that TV ad last night. All my friends are using it. I might just buy myself a license too. There are some privacy issues and stuff but it looks really cool. Thanks, Microsoft! :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AwtiTVy2CPvHydXO88 by ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org
       2025-08-06T12:24:15.455966Z
       
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       @mdhughes  I don’t really buy the “CORPOS DO NOT CARE about your license” argument because I don’t see how it is relevant to the discussion. It’s kind of like saying there is not point in having laws if people are going to break them anyway. Why even use MIT or BSD licenses then?I think with the software license the intention of the author is important. GPL was an attempt at having a legally enforceable declaration that the author intended for the software to always and forever be in the commons.I concede that the GPL is probably inadequate nowadays. There are alternatives though, one that I have been thinking about lately is the Anti-Capitalist Software License, though of course there is probably no way that the license is enforceable.@aral
       
 (DIR) Post #AwtiTX7HvUv3XcsIC0 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-08-06T15:51:11Z
       
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       @ramin_hal9001 @mdhughes Oh, I do like that. Might dual license our work under that and AGPL. Folks can choose the one that fits.