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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 02:54:04 JST 
eliseo
@lxo @Pi_rat
> free software was designed to be welcoming to businesses, compatible even with capitalist business
Exactly, free software as a movement is inherently reformist, that's precisely the major problem I have with it, because it's simply insufficient with the current capitalist conception of technology, technology that is deliberately unsustainable and unjust by design. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2026 11:56:53 JST
eliseo
@Pi_rat
Could you elaborate? -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2026 11:56:51 JST
eliseo
@Pi_rat
And here I thought for a moment I just met someone that went through the same pipeline as me. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2026 11:56:48 JST
eliseo
@Pi_rat
I consider free software as a movement an upcoming failure and patently insufficient, because it tries to apply a reformist approach to an issue that requires radical solutions. I think that the problem isn't proprietary software, rather a symptom of the real problem, which is mainly that there's only a capitalist conception of technology. Proprietary technology isn't a flaw that can be reformed or fixed, it works exactly as proprietary (or rather, capitalist) masters intend it to, there's no game nor competition possible against that with modern technology because nobody other than these monopolistic lords are capable of replicating these technologies, both legally and technically.
Computers as we know (along with the rest of modern technology) them must be stopped, destroyed and disposed of, they can't be "freed", the solution is to start over with a post-capitalist/permacultural approach that's sustainable and doesn't build power dynamics between two social classes by design. If you seek examples you can see what Apple and Microsoft attempted over a decade ago with restricted boot through EFI implementations that only allowed to boot and run their software, back then this agenda was pushed back, but with all State endorsed surveillance and age verification laws we're going to see similar lobbying showing up, and this time they have it much easier to win.
Proprietary tyranny can't be stopped, only delayed, so long as capitalist and government encroachment is widespread.
I think it's also worth tagging @lxo here since I recall his opinion was similar regarding this issue. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2026 11:56:46 JST
eliseo
@Pi_rat @lxo
You may also reach the conclusion that free software might be anti-capitalist, but unfortunately most of it is also capitalist by design, as many software projects have zero regard about sustainability and permacomputing. Many free software requires complex and abysmal software stacks to compile that are constantly changing, growing bigger, consuming more natural resources as time goes on, resources that are by its material condition not just finite but scarce. The very few examples that are sensitive of this issue are specifically designed with resource constraints in mind or else they wouldn't consider them, the only one I can recall of right now being things such as CollapseOS, whose purpose is to bootstrap a computer environment after the supply chain fails, a fate that looks closer than ever. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 18:28:41 JST
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@sun @hj
You might be interested in comparing it with zstandard. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2026 22:25:58 JST
eliseo
@lxo @lexinova
The same reasons I consider other projects such as Jellyfin proprietary; they're using the wrong tools and wrong means to do the job, with the bonus of only documenting how to deploy the program on top of Docker, which is absolutely proprietary, plus the iOS and Android builds which can't be free. Also the fact they host the source tree on a Gitlab instance rather than a regular git-dscm server which requires no javascript to browse, or directly on GNU Savannah like the vast majority of GNU project is unusual and misguided. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 00:57:27 JST
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@prettygood @kirby @Hyperhidrosis @Pi_rat
You can get paid to create free software, with which is technically and practically very difficult to harm people with. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 20:46:09 JST
eliseo
@lxo @lexinova
GNU Jami is too proprietary for my personal taste. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 06:09:49 JST
eliseo
Your software is not free and cannot be free if the stack required to compile it is proprietary, no matter what version of GPL you use. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 11:01:53 JST
eliseo
@SuperDicq @xerz
"Cooperative technology" was corporate propaganda against the FSF, it served its purpose in convincing gullible people that the FSF or Stallman are some kind of evil bogeyman even though none of these corportools can aspire to do what the guy achieved in a lifetime.
Also try to never apologize for speaking truth. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 20:33:06 JST
eliseo
What's the point of using hashtags if you'll complain about engagement when people replies? -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 21:12:08 JST
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@Suiseiseki @eric
Imagine preaching about justice and equality in society while making business out of proprietary software, only could be Apple. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Aug-2025 22:32:32 JST
eliseo
@nixCraft
I'd like to know how exactly does public information equate to "private data" and how copying it is "stealing from everyone". I'm genuinely surprised to see this double-standard on Fediverse of all places where I'd like to assume people should be aware copying is not stealing and that information wants to be free.
There's many valid criticism against indiscriminate, industrial-scale usage of LLM bots and scrapers, copying publicly available data is not one of them, in fact this only portrays you like an hypocrite specially if you're in favor of a decentralized web and free flow of information. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 20:08:18 JST
eliseo
@ube @Suiseiseki @lain
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. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 20:08:09 JST
eliseo
@ube @Suiseiseki @lain
It isn't.
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. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 03:06:49 JST
eliseo
Wanna know why there's more far-right and alt-right radicalized people than ever before? Because the left on the West nowadays consists mostly of holier-than-thou whiny bitches, more invested in labelling people and attacking people rather than the message at hand. I consider myself lucky to be who I am *despite* this cattle of morons. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:54:41 JST
eliseo
@dawcas @kaia @lain
A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn't written by me.
Here's the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me. It makes points that are mistaken or confused.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.
We don't use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 20:00:25 JST
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@lxo @quinn @raed
They always were. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 18:07:45 JST
eliseo
@bojidar_bg @krisfreedom @awoodsnet
One of the plethora of reasons to stay as far away from Arch as possible; distribution of proprietary and malicious software and cooperating with unethical groups such as Discord.
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