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by nonrandomstring
796 days ago
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If you go back to roots, and read some Richard Stallman, Eric
S. Raymond and Bruce Perens you'll find a foundational principle of
non-exclusion. Free Software and Open Source founded on laissez-faire
ideas set out not to exclude any one, in any nation, or commercial
or military use. That's a strong ethical principle; because once you start excluding
this group, or that group... where does that end? However, I think today some FOSS developers have got it all ass
backwards. They suck-up to BigTech, hoping their code will be
(ab)used, and maybe a few crumbs will fall from the table. They feel
under pressure to choose overly-liberal licenses when tactically
they'd be better off in the GPL fold early in their careers, This wannabe mentality is illuminated recently in a hardline
Techrights take [0,1] on FSFE running competitions for very young
hackers to "win your freedom!" Proper hunger games stuff. [0] https://techrights.org/o/2020/04/17/fsfe-surrender/ [1] https://techrights.org/n/2024/04/05/FSFE_Youth_Hacking_4_Fre... |
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