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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.
The dedication of @rms to the GNU project and his work on copyleft licenses have made a profound impact on the software world. Through the GPL, RMS has ensured that software users retain essential freedoms - freedoms to use, study, change and share. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GPL #Copyleft
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Mathe-Ass ist #FreieSoftware unter #GPL, die Quellen sind komplett in https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/draketo/browse/anderes/mathe-ass.org
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: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_copyright_mentality
@bkuhn any advice for choosing #copyleft #licenses for #Rust code?
In a recent thread you mentioned #LGPL and I'm curious about templating.
In my understanding it's not possible for the user to replace just the LGPLd library on their system, so it's effectively the same as #GPL .
I chose #MPL 2.0 instead.
Same problem exists in C++ template-only libraries, but I found no ultimate guide.
Are you aware of any?
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 
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jjo1hv/a_tremendous_feature_of_open_source_software_is/
@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!
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.
#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.
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?
I'm considering to move to the #BSD camp (I'm a user of #Debian #GNU / #Linux since the age of Potato), but my only concern with BSDs is their historical issues with #copyleft. A topic that unfortunately Stefano did not wrote about.
Yet I understand it's a can of worms.
CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe
en el #hacklab de @csolaenre
estamos cocinando con mucho #amor #copyleft y libertario las siguientes actividades
- #Selfhosting de mensajeria TALLER FINAL ! Resumen de los 3 anteriores #XMPP + #MATRIX & SIMPLEX
Abril - Mayo 2025
- CINEROFUM
Abril de 2025
- Fontaneria de #GNU #Linux ! #SSH y certificados ;-)
Abril de 2025
- CRYPTOPARTY , El arte del cifrado
Mayo de 2025
- Bienvenidas a vuestro OASIS , INSTALL PARTY !
Mayo de 2025
ven y haz tu propuesta/taller !
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en el #hacklab de @csolaenre
estamos cocinando con mucho #amor #copyleft y libertario las siguientes actividades
Taller 2 Inteligencia artificial libre ( automatas y entrenamiento propio )
Abril - Mayo de 2025
Rebelion de los artefactos
28 de Marzo de 2025
Selfhosting de mensajeria TALLER FINAL ! Resumen de los 3 anteriores + MATRIX & SIMPLEX
Abril - Mayo de 2025
ven y haz tu propuesta taller !
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I want every program that’s required to participate productively in society to be #FreeSoftware
Because Free Software allows me to avoid direct remote control of what I can do. And it enables me to help others with my #programming skills.
That’s why I think we need #copyleft. Ideally the AGPL, because only that keeps webservices free. And those are programs, too.
(a discussion got me thinking why I contribute to FLOSS projects; besides wanting to share what I create, this is the reason)
@elebertus
Your point about resources is apt. Larry Rosen argued since 1990s: FOSS licenses needed attorney's fees clauses. I still disagree w/ him, but it'd've solved our enforcement problem (& created many others).
Based on 25 years of enforcing #copyleft, I witnessed in the early days, no one imagined that software companies would ignore a license's requirements (be it FOSS or proprietary). I know that sounds so naïve today, but it was a core belief of FOSS enthusiasts in the early days.
By requiring modified and extended versions of software to remain free, cpyleft ensures that software remains free for all its users, not just some of them. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #GPL #Copyleft
@yo @BrodieOnLinux
"I want big corporations to be able to steal my work without ever contributing back, so I'll chose an MIT / BSD license, and this way my project will be very successful"
few years later:
"I can't keep it up, everyone relies on my software but none of the big companies contribute back anything, I'm burnt out how can they do this to me"
use copyleft, bois and grills.
#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers.
The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees. Six thousand.
So the advocates for #copyleft must be us. We can’t point at the FSF and say “they didn’t do it”. They provide resources. We have to use them to protect our freedom as users.
10 years later...
"...and that's why Microsoft are doodoo heads and should share their improved version of uutils.
Mark Shurtleworth."
This comment brought to you by the "#GPL is still awesome #copyleft" gang.
I do not know how they would make it all that better, or if at that point busybox hasn't been fully ported to zig, but I stand by my silly joke.