Notices tagged with freesoftware

@nicemicro it's corporations who want to avoid gpl code because that imposes obligations. Developers not in #OpenBSD who care about survival of #FreeSoftware should use licences that enforce code survival and growth. There's a reason bsds are now a blip of a percent of total os now and linux is in and on everything. You have to force sharing and giving back when dealing with the sociopathic corporate sector. Anything else is naive. Except for special cases like openssh, libressl etc.

@nicemicro to me the core mindbug is open source. Vs #FreeSoftware. If you fall for that trap then one license is as good as another so you'll burn out once reality sets in. I make free software to help the bits of free software ecosystem I can. Free software of course is open source by definition but as ibm-redhat recently showed us the contrary is not necessarily true. Since I've never had any interest in doing unpaid work for billion dollar corporations I used gpl from first day I found it.

@smxi if at least developers used #GPL / #AGPL, the corporations at least were forced to contribute back in one way or an other, but due to the rampant use of MIT and BSD licenses, they can literally get away without doing anything beneficial for the wider ecosystem while using other people's code (those other people let them do it).

I think the proliferation of MIT and BSD licenses really made the #FreeSoftware free rider problem much worse than it should be.

@clacke

The #FreeSoftware fork of #Redis is already up: https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

#Redict #Copyleft #NeverSignCLA

In the hallways at #FOSSY there was a lot of talk about the religiousness of the #FreeSoftware community, and how it's kept people out.

I've turning that over in my mind in the months since then. The problem isn't the religiousness, it's who it's directed at.

The advocacy focuses on convincing users they should use Free Software, and the community says it's a sin if you use nonfree software.

But that's not the sin. The users of nonfree software aren't the sinners, the *authors* of it are.

@pluralistic thank you for sharing this talk, and thank you @mako for giving it in the first place.

I find it one of the most articulate comparisons between #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware. It really articulately explains the intuitive difference in feeling between using open source and free software projects.

Today it's been 10 years since the first #GNU #Guix commit! 🎂

Some of the 600+ people who made it possible wrote their story:

👉 https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/10-years-of-stories-behind-guix/

🎉 🥳 👏 #FreeSoftware #Guix10Years

I think part of the success of #linux based operating systems is that they managed to create a nexus for /every/ #FreeSoftware program to distribute itself to interested people, through package repositories and package managers. it's incredibly powerful that you can load up an entire minimum operating system of purely Free Software and then boot up your package manager and go discover more.

I think we need to create something vaguely like that for #FreeCulture to really get it to snowball.

#Rust seems to have grown an individualist community, with all its tiny packages hosted in a non-curated repo, with its rejection of copyleft, and with its disregard of #FreeSoftware “community standards” developed by distro folks over the years.

I feel that introducing Rust right into once collectively-developed code bases at the core of GNU/Linux will have unpredictable and detrimental effects.