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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 21:55:14 JST pistolero

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   @neo @lamp @EdBoatConnoisseur @TheMadPirate TL;DR: this turned into a rant but I plan to use AGPLv3 for most of the stuff I do, and if I'm making a recommendation, it's that. Your mileage may vary.
   
   Trivial stuff, I'm just shoving onto the internet. Anal-retentive people get all flustered if you download a .c file and then compile it and you don't know what the license is, but really, nobody's going after a dude hacking at home and intellectual property is a spook and cramming SPDX identifiers into every file in a repo is batshit insane.
   
   So if you think in practical terms, like, the situation on the ground, only businesses and organizations are really bound by licensing terms. You don't really need a "personal use" exception, people just do stuff. Especially businesses, though, Oracle or Microsoft or Google or even some dipshit "NFT but it's AI" startup raising a Series C, they drag in all of the MIT/BSD-licensed code they can, and they won't touch AGPLv3. OpenSSL and xz and all of these projects that come down to one broke guy hacking for free, and these businesses exploit that code.
   
   In general, this has been a problem: finance psychopaths have eaten the entire tech industry. It used to be safe for nerds and spergs to say all their insane shit and show up for work some time after lunch and work until 5 a.m. and those are now the people being pushed out in favor of people that the business guys like, and the business guys fucking hate hackers and they have been doing their best to make the industry hostile. (I really should clip out that thing Hamming said in his lecture, that was great shit.) They push rms out, they browbeat Linus for 20 years until he lets their CoC in, they lead the charge when some poor bastard's Github Issues are raided. Those are the people that are spooked by licensing terms, and they are the people that can write a check or fuck off. There is no organization to assign a copyright to, because I want to horrify anyone that considers a license change.
   
   I don't expect to make a huge dent, but I do intend to ignore fuckers that see a house I have built and then complain that the AGPLv3 prevents them from using the design for tract homes: they have given me no reason to care what they think and plenty of reasons not to. Some asshole thought-leader is at a summit, looking down his nose at engineers, and I don't intend to support his bottom line. Anything I make, I make for myself, for other hackers, and to advance things that I want advanced: freedom of speech is a big one. I want Google and Twitter and Oracle and Microsoft and the rest of the Silicon Valley Data Cartel dead. I want censorship dead, along with any organization that has ever tried to force someone to shut up. I sure as fuck don't want to end up doing work for them for free.
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