RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117579594140229264
If free software is not about ethics, then what the fuck is its point.
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RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117579594140229264
If free software is not about ethics, then what the fuck is its point.
@Gargron Ethics are central, but I like using it more than I like using commercial software. It tends to be better, and you don't have to worry about a company taking it away or breaking it.
@Gargron Depends on who defines the ethics. I like free software and, personally, I would like to see everything released under more permissive licenses which also includes usage in commercial software without attribution.
@Gargron How is that a ‘yes’..
“We could shoot ourself in the foot but we could also choose not too. We chose yes.”
@Gargron Eugen Rochko being on the right side of history counter: ∞
@Gargron That’s the whole difference between free software and open source, we can thank Eric Raymond…
@Gargron It's recognition that this shit is all deeply personal and subjective.
Sometimes people in power don't think Jews get to do science.
Some people in power don't think that Palestians can argue against genocide on campus.
No-one allowed Denmark to publish a political cartoon. When Yale wrote up the investigation, they weren't allowed to publish the cartoon.
They're all doing it for their own moral reasons.