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I don't even need to say this but
FOSS has many, many problems but contributing to monopoly is not among htem.
open source software has problems such as what?
The most popular open source licenses are insufficiently militant and just create a new commons for capitalists to loot.
I treasure every piece of hate mail I get for my choice of the AGPLv3 in my projects, instead of the MIT or BSD licenses like so many others managing projects in the same niche.
lmao get fucked nerds
Incredibly based.
Too little of it and prominent assholes (Stallman et al.)
No idea about shit, why Stallman is an asshole?
Incredibly prolific harasser of women and talks a lot in official communiques about ephebophila
There was some good article I found the other day, I'll try and retrieve it as an edit later
For fuck sakes,
This is the article
I feel so conflicted about Stallman. he's ideologically correct that free software must be protected from encroachment by capital -- but such a fucking creep/asshole on literally everything else.
There's so many better representatives for free software, to put it gently, Stallman has long outlived his usefulness.
agreed, he just has an important legacy that can't be ignored.
I don't know why one needs to make a moral judgment on him. He existed and what he created is important but it's not like we're the jury on his trial.
I'm comfortable making a moral judgement on the pedophilia comments
Probably my most problematic fave of all time. He's such a lovable dork and right about everything a good 95% of the time, but then when he's wrong he's very very wrong
I still think I could fix him though.
He's really not
Correction: Stallman is not part of open source initiative. His essays on Free software are seperate as well as the GNU Project and FSF.
The separation between Free software and open source software is a very narrow one. Most open source projects use the GPL. Just because he doesn't write code and isn't in a leadership role in GNU or the FSF doesn't change the fact that he is a very influential figure.
I agree it's really narrow in practice. But the basic idea is that Free/libre pertains to your 4 freedoms while open source is about technical craft through a superior design philosophy. There are also historical considerations as OSI was derived from the initial Free software movement and was historically designed to appeal to corporations.
Stallman is very influential for his pioneering of Free software and the GPL/copyleft. But that's what it's limited to now. If you want an example, I contribute to GNU Guix which has put out a statement against Stallmans continued role in representing GNU.
People have very conflicting feelings about Stallman because the campaign for his removal was to be frank, a total clusterfuck. I'm not a Stallman supporter by any means, but it was bad.
that's a good statement and totally underscores my own feelings towards the man.
some open source projects are very gate-kept and dude-bro centric
that sounds like an issue with specific open source projects and not open source software as a whole
i would agree except it keeps happening so somewhere there is a fundamental problem even if that problem is societal
😭bruh be so fr. not trying to tell me closed source projects are better
yeah actually come to think of it software was a mistake