There are lots of other galaxy-brain moments there.

"Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin"

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net Let's hear your rant

    • Owl [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      The most popular open source licenses are insufficiently militant and just create a new commons for capitalists to loot.

      • daisy
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        7 months ago

        The most popular open source licenses are insufficiently militant and just create a new commons for capitalists to loot.

        I treasure every piece of hate mail I get for my choice of the AGPLv3 in my projects, instead of the MIT or BSD licenses like so many others managing projects in the same niche.

    • radiofreeval [any]
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      7 months ago

      Too little of it and prominent assholes (Stallman et al.)

      • RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
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        7 months ago

        No idea about shit, why Stallman is an asshole?

      • jaeme
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        7 months ago

        Correction: Stallman is not part of open source initiative. His essays on Free software are seperate as well as the GNU Project and FSF.

        • radiofreeval [any]
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          7 months ago

          The separation between Free software and open source software is a very narrow one. Most open source projects use the GPL. Just because he doesn't write code and isn't in a leadership role in GNU or the FSF doesn't change the fact that he is a very influential figure.

          • jaeme
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            7 months ago

            I agree it's really narrow in practice. But the basic idea is that Free/libre pertains to your 4 freedoms while open source is about technical craft through a superior design philosophy. There are also historical considerations as OSI was derived from the initial Free software movement and was historically designed to appeal to corporations.

            Stallman is very influential for his pioneering of Free software and the GPL/copyleft. But that's what it's limited to now. If you want an example, I contribute to GNU Guix which has put out a statement against Stallmans continued role in representing GNU.

            People have very conflicting feelings about Stallman because the campaign for his removal was to be frank, a total clusterfuck. I'm not a Stallman supporter by any means, but it was bad.

            • silent_water [she/her]
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              7 months ago

              that's a good statement and totally underscores my own feelings towards the man.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        I feel so conflicted about Stallman. he's ideologically correct that free software must be protected from encroachment by capital -- but such a fucking creep/asshole on literally everything else.

        • radiofreeval [any]
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          7 months ago

          There's so many better representatives for free software, to put it gently, Stallman has long outlived his usefulness.

            • radiofreeval [any]
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              7 months ago

              I don't know why one needs to make a moral judgment on him. He existed and what he created is important but it's not like we're the jury on his trial.

        • The_Grinch [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Probably my most problematic fave of all time. He's such a lovable dork and right about everything a good 95% of the time, but then when he's wrong he's very very wrong cringe

          I still think I could fix him though.

      • megasteel32 [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        that sounds like an issue with specific open source projects and not open source software as a whole

        • LaughingLion [any, any]
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          7 months ago

          i would agree except it keeps happening so somewhere there is a fundamental problem even if that problem is societal