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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 03:58:00 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Luis Villa
   are you addressing people who have historically partaken in misrepresenting as open the Linux kernel (and most GNU/Linux distros) despite containing binary blobs under obnoxious licenses? or is that still cool IYO?
   IME "open source" has always been about accepting stuff that doesn't fit the definition. there's nothing new here.
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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 03:58:01 JST Luis Villa

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     For those of you who are agitating for "open" to include non-open licenses when they're not open in a way you personally like: you're on the same side as Mark Zuckerberg.

     His misuse shows what 'semi-open is good enough' will actually mean in practice, under actually-existing capital conditions: it isn't going to give people like you power to stop the things you don't like—it's going to give people like Zuck power to stop the things they don't like.

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 03:58:02 JST Luis Villa

     • Open Source Initiative :osi:

     I assume/hope that @osi has a canned statement ready to go on this abuse of “open source”. You don’t need a new definition of open AI to know this is just wrong.
     https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C9xPBHGv_3V