@lxo software, and feel a twinge of guilt, but say "hey, gotta make ends meet" and "at least I contribute to Free Software", and "at least I use entirely Free Software." We should feel *very* bad about it. This is *much* stronger accompliceship than the user who pays a small sum for nonfree software they need. This is what the community's religious zeal should be focused at. (2/2)
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 15:08:38 JST Luke T. Shumaker -
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:06:40 JST Luke T. Shumaker @evan Because my definitions are apparently almost the opposite of your definitions, I want to defend myself as "not a dumbass":
Toot-sized versions of what they mean to me:
- Small Fedi means lots of small account servers.
- Big Fedi means a few big account servers.Most of my agreement or disagreement follows from those meanings.
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:06:40 JST Luke T. Shumaker @evan I voted "More Small than Big", but based on the definitions in your blog post, I'd have voted "More Big than Small".
Specifically:
Of your 24 "Big Fedi" ideas:
- strongly agree: 19
- strongly disagree: 1
- somewhere in the middle: 4
Of your 22 "Small Fedi" ideas:
- strongly agree: 2
- strongly disagree: 17
- somewhere in the middle: 3 -
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 15:22:28 JST Luke T. Shumaker In the hallways at #FOSSY there was a lot of talk about the religiousness of the #FreeSoftware community, and how it's kept people out.
I've turning that over in my mind in the months since then. The problem isn't the religiousness, it's who it's directed at.
The advocacy focuses on convincing users they should use Free Software, and the community says it's a sin if you use nonfree software.
But that's not the sin. The users of nonfree software aren't the sinners, the *authors* of it are.
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 15:40:56 JST Luke T. Shumaker @amszmidt @lxo @janneke @vagrantc
As ams says, "incomplete source code" is a "bug". But it's a bug that affects software freedom. GC helps prevent memory bugs; RB helps prevent software freedom bugs.
Not a requirement, not essential; but helpful.
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 15:40:56 JST Luke T. Shumaker @amszmidt @lxo @janneke @vagrantc I'm not going to argue that RB is a "requirement" (lxo's word) or "essential" (janneke's word) for software freedom, but I am going to argue for "helpful", which is contrary to it being "irrelevant" (ams's word).
As a (former?/AWOL) distro packager for a totally free distro (Parabola), and someone working on RYF hardware:
RB helps/would-help us verify that we are shipping the complete corresponding source code.
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Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 19:11:39 JST Luke T. Shumaker @jxself @larsbrinkhoff Am I understanding that you intentionally chose a street number that matches the building number that the MIT AI Lab was (is?) in!?