@lain I wish they'd invent ads that actually work. if I open Microsoft Edge front page now it will have ads about catheters because I was recently curious how it worked. only ads about catheters. nothing else.
@lain can you pi-hole the ads? I would have more issues with the spying and profiling than the ads themselves tbh. Not using Netflix anyway because of DRM and artificial device/client gatekeeping, no downloads in most clients and arbitrary rules to visit a main client bc "muh primary device must be in use otherwise you sHaRe AcCoUnTs"
@lain@Suiseiseki@ube >99% of capitalists prefers some installed tyrant for more balanced relations between companies (ideeller Gesamtkapitalist) >"hey let's agree to use this tyrant to make numbers and informations illegal because we have the power to do so anyways" >this is communism somehow
@ube@eliseo01@lain >licences such as the gpl have a number of restrictions There is no "the gpl". There is the GPLv1, GPLv2 & GPLv3.
The GPLv3 contains no restrictions - it gives permissions to do things that government restrictions by default don't allow and also does not permit applying further restrictions to the software.
That's right - forbidding is forbidden.
A public-domain equivalent license would be a free license, but the problem with using such license is that if the software is any good, people are going to put proprietary restrictions on the software and restrict people.
@eliseo01@Suiseiseki@lain free software as suiseiseki defines it absolutely is not anarchist, licences such as the gpl have a number of restrictions and legal defense teams to go along with it. a public domain equivalent no rights deal would be more properly anarchist (and moral, ip is a spook)
Free software is anarchist, whereas proprietary software is authoritarian (and therefore communist), capitalism only seeks to increase their profits exponentially and if it means using authority, control and abusing people for it then it'll be done.
Free software as defined by GNU is anarchist, guaranteeing that the public has some basic rights granted and that such rights can't be taken away without consent to ensure computing freedom from the people isn't authoritarian.
The GPL is a hack to try and use the flawed legislation to protect these rights rather than destroy them, and people should always defend themselves by any means necessary, including using copyright itself if possible, much like people should use violence to defend from the State, if necessary.
@ube@eliseo01@Suiseiseki yeah, free software under a copyright regime is still statist. source code or no source code, copyright is fake. i doubt that under a true no copyright regime people would be very protective of their source code as it would be very profitable to produce good decompilers.
@ube@eliseo01@lain There is no forced behavior - everyone is free to use the software privately and never distribute it, or exercise freedom 0 and not run the software.
Permission is simply not granted to take people's freedom by distributing the software as proprietary software.
Companies can never be forced to distribute the source code - if a company is infringing the GPLv2, or GPLv3, one of the options to comply is to cease distribution of the software forever.
The AGPLv3-or-later ensures that everyone's ability to run, understand, share and/or modify the software is not restricted, as the software is free software for all of its users.
@ube@eliseo01@lain I agree - you should be free to not share what you made, by being free to not distribute the software (some "open source" certified licenses don't actually give you that freedom).
But, if you are distributing a modified version of the software as proprietary software, you are taking freedom, as the user would have freedom if you just kept the freedom in place and included or offered the source code as free software via some reasonable method (which the GPLv3 & AGPLv3 define).
@kaia@lain "Send another ad to the catheter woman, Samir" "But saar, we've sent her ad every day all year, she don't buy" "It was not a request, send the ad" :ElainaEvil:
@ube@eliseo01@lain Is this what gratis proprietary software authors actually believe? (Some of they even pay for the "privilege" of writing proprietary software without pay!)
While writing proprietary software is immoral in itself, if you at least get paid, it is possible to offset such immoral result with the money. But if you write proprietary software totally gratis, or even pay to do so, the end result is a total net negative to humanity.
GNU/Morals are built on a completely logical basis - if the users do not get freedom due to unchecked immoral proprietary software distribution, the end logical result is a disaster every time.