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#copyleft

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Red the Bean

If I can push myself to do it, I will write an article about how the free software movement and the legal logic of copyleft is going to help us defeat fascism by taking finance capitalism out by its roots and replacing it with the infrastructure any democracy needs to function today.

#FOSS#copyleft#geopolitics
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h o ʍ l e t t

@nuddlegg Finally, it may also be worth discussing the benefits of restricting knowledge and considering that any published work is, by definition, public so refraining from its uses or diffusion may be pointless ultimately. Basically, #noai versus #copyleft.

Curious to read your thoughts about this.

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Red the Bean

OK! I was finally able to ask Yanis Varoufakis if he knows copyleft and the free software movement are behind him and if he'll work more with the EFF to push for public ownership of "the cloud".

I really want him to see and use the power of copyleft in his strategies with DiEM25 and the Progressive International. Neither group is much in the #Fediverse yet, I've noticed. But the political infrastructure exists!

Screenshot of the moment during the talk between Yanis Varoufakis and Michael Hudson from the David Graeber Institute today when my question was selected and Yanis read it: "Question for Yanis: Do you know the copyleft and free software movement are behind you? Will you work with the EFF to start a mass movement to change the property rights of the "cloud” infrastructure?" [It was a Youtube live stream, and the question is at the bottom of the screen, under Yanis in the main speaker spot and Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor in smaller sections of the screen stacked on the right, under the DGI logo.
#FreeSoftware#geopolitics#economics
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`Da Elf

@juliewebgirl I've had the privilege of telling Bono to go Fook Hisself vis-a-vis Making TelCos log All traffic (trillions in disk, NSA's job, not mine) to stop torrents to protect a few million of his "intellectual property".

Nah, says I. *Literally spit*

Bono is a little copyright bitch.

PTSD that.

#ckin#stard#copyleft
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:gnu:Hacker

@slashdot The three knights of the apocalypse.

#SteveBallmer was one of the worst things that happened to the software industry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ba

"He maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at the time but that times have changed."

Not thanks to him. And #Microsoft does not use #Copyleft licenses in their works, like most corporations, including #Google.

Had it not been a monopoly, Microsoft would have disappeared.

en.wikipedia.orgSteve Ballmer - Wikipedia
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ITs History!
The first Apple Watch was introduced 1995.
It's #contemporary #design is standing out after 30 years, still. While it was deeply integrated into #MacOS System 7.5, it's not one of their digital #gadgets. This #anniversary seems to be perfect to revisit and redraw some shacky lines and seconds in corporate #history of #AppleComputers.
https://youtu.be/AR5DUrI994Q

#Apple lost me as #proUser when they rejected my third warranty case in a row.
To rebuild the #AppleWatch from scratch in #vectorgraphics I prefer #Inkscape #SVG #copyleft on #Linux #FOSS over #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #IP #copyright #software.

Go get the best #vector #designer #app
https://inkscape.org
and you can draw freely #retrocomputer #illustrations like we do.
Apple Watch 1995 revisited in vector retrospective perspective
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Arne Babenhauserheide

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Den zweiten Teil unterstützt es hiermit jetzt besser.

Um in Level 1 das Maximum zu erreichen, müsst ihr unter 2 Sekunden kommen ☺

Mathe-Ass ist #FreieSoftware unter #GPL, die Quellen sind komplett in hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/draketo/brow

Mathe Ass Webseite mit den Ergebnissen für die Rechenarten. Über jedem Ergebnis ist eine Spakline, die zeigt, wie schnell die bereits geschafften Level geknackt wurden.
#mathe#schule#mathematik
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

#copyright#endCopyright#copyleft
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NiceMicro

You all have the right to write #FreeSoftware, and you write whatever you want.

And when you look at what software other people are writing, keep it in mind, that they have the right to write whatever software they feel like.

They even have all rights to license it under #MIT or #BSD licenses, because everyone has the right to make objectively wrong decisions, too 😂

reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1j

#linux#gpl#copyLeft
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@burnoutqueen the problem is that #enforcing #copyleft doesn't get you a single line of code improvements.

In an ideal world it would, but we all know that's not the case.

  • Consider #BSD-licensed alternatives a competiton, which is more likely to get contributions back (again, Rob Landley can most likely attest to that) from corporations and see it as a motivation for copyleft-licensed projects to step up their game!
#bsd
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Thor A. Hopland

Now #uutil is going to replace #coreutils ? Not trusting that one bit.

The core utilities of any given #operatingsystem, as well as the kernel, display protocol, etc, etc, etc should NEVER be up to #liberal #licensing like #MIT or #BSD.

For total power to the user, the fundamental technological stack should be #copyleft, because we should have #legal expectations towards vendors.

This is also from the system that brought you #snaps. #canonical wants a #walledgarden and it shows.

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Thor A. Hopland

#Copyleft means "power to the user". That is certain expectations are #legally expected of companies and organizations that partake in the code, and those expectations are levied in the users interests.

That is you are expected to contribute back improvements and not put them behind a paywall. This makes #copyleft is anti #freemium by default.

There are plenty of companies that try to slip one by, but in the fundamental software that's in all of our computers? That's historically a bad idea.

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Thor A. Hopland

Watching a video that makes a bad case against #uutils - so here I go.

I don't care if you run #commercial #software like #videogames and #musicsoftware , because certain software is so huge and complex that it requires return on investment.

There's also something to be said for #MIT and #BSD licenses in general software, #CC even.

But when it comes to the fundamental software you run, like kernel or essential userland commands, it's gotta be #GPL - if not some other #copyleft license. Why?

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