cerement@cerement@social.targaryen.house
@eruwero@ieji.de @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
@pluralistic@mamot.fr recently did a column on the divide between “free software” and “open source software”
one of his closing points: out of all the effort put into licenses, some of that needs to be diverted towards creating a workable (and usable) ethical software license that takes into account the world we’re actually living in where corporations treat open source like unpaid interns
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/
Bradley M. Kühn@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org
@cerement@social.targaryen.house @eruwero@ieji.de
Cooption has definitely occurred. It didn't happen because some said “open source” &/or called a system that had both #GNU & #Linux in it “a Linux-based system”.
It happened mostly because activists from all sides didn't anticipate the capitalist plans to exploit the community.
Many of us, including myself for a while, were more worried about the words than the policy while that was happening.
#Copyleft needs saving. I'm focused on that.
Cc: @tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz @pluralistic@mamot.fr