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“Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin”

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net Let’s hear your rant

        • xj9 [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          on the other hand, maybe GNU should shove it? viral licensing is a nice hack, but its not like they’re the only community that produces free/open source software. many groups share the objective, even if they don’t all agree with the utility or importance of viral clauses. obviously, OSI is pretty much only there to make the concept more palatable to corpos, but i don’t see any reason to be loyal to GNU.

        • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I’m even more confused. it means “Free and Open Source Software” everywhere I can find and I’ve only ever heard it in contrast with OSS, especially by license conscious devs who want to avoid copyleft.

          • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Being open source is a necessary but not sufficient condition of software being Free, so Free Software already means that. FOSS is a corporate plot to conflate software that is merely open source with software that is fully Free.

              • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Free means Free is an empty tautology that means nothing.

                Free means software which preserves your four fundamental software freedoms: the freedom to run the program as you wish, the freedom to study and modify the program, the freedom to redistribute the program, and the freedom to distribute your modifications to the program.

                Open source only protects part of the second freedom.

                • GhostSpider [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  You know what? I thought the “Free” in FOSS meant only free as in free beer, while the Open Source part was the free as in free speech part, but upon further investigation I concluded that you are right. Have a nice day.