Post B6IqFAjU7hY1IW3vkG by nach@detroitriotcity.com
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(DIR) Post #B6Id6k6FxbW8ydMcHA by xgranade@wandering.shop
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There's something truly dismal about watching foss go slop. Like, free software was supposed to be about ideals, a better vision for what computing could be. The rampant misogyny, transphobia, abelism, and racism already showed how limited that vision was, but now it seems like it doesn't exist at all.Just... volunteer work for giant corporations. The same extractive vision of computing, but now coupled to a Reagan regime oppression of labor rights and environmental deregulation.
(DIR) Post #B6Id7FrTs4iDU4hGgi by miss_rodent@girlcock.club
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@xgranade it was always a very narrow ethical position about a specific subject; which is useful in some cases, but, also means that outside that specific vein, the ethical side was never that well-aligned elsewhere.
(DIR) Post #B6IdtILZvwGN5ngM3E by Canageek@wandering.shop
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@xgranade Honestly, I think Creative Commons is non-commercial license was a much better idea than the GPL, And I've always been annoyed that if you selected it, scolds you for not embracing free culture.
(DIR) Post #B6IdtIcaufsFwZdwZc by xgranade@wandering.shop
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@Canageek Yeah, though there's technical problems with using CC for source code, or for using GPL for things that don't have source code. The licenses are each written to fairly specific scenarios, and don't generalize well. Which is sensible, the law doesn't like generalities, by and large. But it does mean that there's a need for some kind of coherence between the goals and ideals behind code and non-code licenses.
(DIR) Post #B6IdtIufpSKsqe6Nkm by Canageek@wandering.shop
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@xgranade I just meant in terms of intentions, The GPL and BSD licenses seem almost designed to make corporations happy
(DIR) Post #B6IdtJ5fAb7tOjF9sm by xgranade@wandering.shop
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@Canageek The BSD and MIT licenses, very much so. The GPL, though, that's a very strange case. The copyleft provisions make a lot of companies run for the hills (hence the popular thing of slopbros license-washing away the GPL), but also its refusal to prohibit any kind of extractionism not explicitly called out in Stallman's original writings is.... weird, to say the least.
(DIR) Post #B6IdtJH0UQCTxuYDZ2 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@xgranade @Canageek it does allow tiny shops to sprout, too, not just benefit megacorps. The latter would just take anyway ignoring the licence. I don’t think the benefit from using an NC licence is smaller than the harm, on whole-society.
(DIR) Post #B6IdtK8tG5Imf1lFYG by xgranade@wandering.shop
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@Canageek That and Lessig being an Epstein client kinda casts a pall over the political motivations behind his projects. I get that, unlike the FSF, CC has grown beyond its founders, but still.
(DIR) Post #B6IdtrRTS0m7wDi3bE by linear@nya.social
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@xgranade@wandering.shop the only solution i can think of, for myself, is to write software that is only useful to people, and which is not useful (or if possible, actively obstructive) to those who which to continue optimizing paperclips
(DIR) Post #B6If73PuL9bKnOpdPE by Canageek@wandering.shop
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@mirabilos @xgranade I don't want tiny shops using my writings either. in I want them to be given out for free, like net.books and other things as they were created when I was young and it was hard to monetize things on the internet.
(DIR) Post #B6If73pQoG1A4Ym1Bo by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@Canageek @xgranade I’m totally okay with someone making a bit of money for, say, supporting a dozen $cms_software users. Better yet if they contribute back fixes. (I used a CMS now as handy example, I’m equally fine with the software I write. In fact, your Android thingy comes with some of that, and it made the life easier for many people.)
(DIR) Post #B6IfDjSivfqSw1KjGy by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@Canageek @xgranade at this point in time, even more than 2+ decades ago, we all stand on the shoulders of giants; it’s presumptuous to not publish things under libre licences.
(DIR) Post #B6IgwbhiiitVrJJGZE by Canageek@wandering.shop
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@mirabilos @xgranade see I don't want people making money in certain spaces at all. if possible, I would like it if there was enough open source ttrpgs to completely push companies out of the space, instead of what we're seeing is that it adds easier and easier to publish things for money.Instead of writing an adventure for a home group, thinking it's pretty good, and putting it up on a forum for free for others to enjoy, everyone puts it up on DTRPG to make a quick buck.
(DIR) Post #B6Igwbs06V7MNC7Tai by Canageek@wandering.shop
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@mirabilos @xgranade It's even getting to the point that people are expecting to be paid for DMing these days
(DIR) Post #B6Igwc2dSxcmuB5yAS by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@Canageek @xgranade that, specifically, is not something you even can fight with copyright licences, let alone should.Fighting it otherhow, on the other hand, would be good. Build up a community where people contribute and receive, not just skim off.
(DIR) Post #B6Iq1dbJzjUymEn42S by nach@detroitriotcity.com
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@xgranade enjoy the land you created, retard.
(DIR) Post #B6IqFAjU7hY1IW3vkG by nach@detroitriotcity.com
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@xgranade btw i'm forwarding this to freedesktop because you broke rule 3214.42 of their COCk, enjoy your lifetime ban chud