Help me bring about Freedom Respecting Technology the Next Generation
of Open Source and Open Knowledge
reddit / BSD

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makesourcenotcode · 2023-07-13 02:37

I've been working on what I hope is the Next Generation of the Open
Source movement.

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See here to read about how Open Source fails in certain serious ways
to be properly open and what I propose be done about it:

[https://makesourcenotcode.github.io/freedom\_respecting\_technology.h
tml](https://makesourcenotcode.github.io/freedom_respecting_technology
.html)

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I'm also working on some FRT demo projects so people can viscerally
feel the difference between FRTs and mere FOSS.

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You can help by:

1. spreading the word if you agree with the ideas behind FRTs

2. helping me tighten the arguments in the Freedom Respecting
Technology Definition

3. proposing ideas for FRT projects you'd like to see to help me
prioritize the most impactful demos

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demetrioussharpe · 2023-07-13 11:55

Who is this for? What’s the target audience/market?

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reallokiscarlet · 2023-07-13 19:29

r/lostredditors

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makesourcenotcode · 2023-07-14 19:13

The FRTD is for people who care about FOSS and sharing knowledge in a
truly open accessible manner. (For example I shouldn't need to
constantly have an internet connection to study any existing official
documentation of something alleging to be open. People should be able
to trivially make useful offline copies of the whole Open Knowledge
Set associated with a technology. The myopic focus on easy copying of
the main program sources and maybe executables isn't enough to
guarantee true freedom.)

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demetrioussharpe · 2023-07-14 19:28

That’s outside the spirit of the BSD license. What you’re describing
is more of a GNU attitude. As such, I doubt that you’ll get the
traction that you’re looking for here.

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sehnsuchtbsd · 2023-07-17 06:57

If I understand this correctly, it seems like your problem could be
largely addressed with UUCP:

https://uucp.tildeverse.org/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

Have also a look at NNCP:

https://www.complete.org/quux-org-nncp-public-relay/

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makesourcenotcode · 2023-07-18 02:38

These look interesting upon first skim. Will examine further.