I honestly think they've gotten weirder since Uriel died, but yeah that's cat-v for you.
I feel like I should contextualize a bit; a ton of the material on cat-v was written pre-2012 by Uriel, a weird dork who practically created the archetype for galaxy brained esoteric libertarian FOSSbro Internet Freedom Fighter. I think a lot of it stays up in a mostly unedited form since the cat-v folks want to lionize him in death despite it being mostly bizarre cringe.
as a FOSS zealot, yeah. it's fucking ridiculous, I am tired of rubbing virtual elbows with ancaps and other right-libertarians (who think they're the smartest person in the room) just because we agree that software licenses are a spook
most of them end up being BSD fanboys so it's pretty easy to infer their actual ideology even when they're just talking about software, which is nice, but it's still annoying that there are so many of them
FOSS is cool because its literally having digital means of production. FOSS bros are often libertarian dipshits because they don't understand you can't GPL land or factories, no matter how much they try.
jesus fucking christ, why does this dork hate GNU so much? like, plan 9 was cool or whatever but imagine trying to resurrect it because you hate the GPL
If you think that’s pretentious, check out http://harmful.cat-v.org/
deleted by creator
I honestly think they've gotten weirder since Uriel died, but yeah that's cat-v for you.
I feel like I should contextualize a bit; a ton of the material on cat-v was written pre-2012 by Uriel, a weird dork who practically created the archetype for galaxy brained esoteric libertarian FOSSbro Internet Freedom Fighter. I think a lot of it stays up in a mostly unedited form since the cat-v folks want to lionize him in death despite it being mostly bizarre cringe.
foss is good and all but holy shit its community has a lot of weirdos
as a FOSS zealot, yeah. it's fucking ridiculous, I am tired of rubbing virtual elbows with ancaps and other right-libertarians (who think they're the smartest person in the room) just because we agree that software licenses are a spook
most of them end up being BSD fanboys so it's pretty easy to infer their actual ideology even when they're just talking about software, which is nice, but it's still annoying that there are so many of them
FOSS is cool because its literally having digital means of production. FOSS bros are often libertarian dipshits because they don't understand you can't GPL land or factories, no matter how much they try.
Oh interesting I didn’t know that history behind it, thanks
damn this is a perfect encapsulation of foss bro beliefs
jesus fucking christ, why does this dork hate GNU so much? like, plan 9 was cool or whatever but imagine trying to resurrect it because you hate the GPL