Notices by Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet@fosstodon.org)

@dalias @mirabilos @glitzersachen @datenwolf @The4thCircle @kestral

Oh come on, seriously? THAT is pushing AI? Sorry, I'm on Mastodon to learn stuff by having open discussions with smart people. It kinda falls flat on its face when people resort to questioning motives when you say something they don't fully agree with.

Your kind of "let's punish all dissent" is more fit for Twitter/X, I would think.

@dalias @mirabilos @glitzersachen @datenwolf @The4thCircle @kestral Well, I'm not my employer, and I'm quite sure nearly everyone at Nextcloud would very much prefer a world where the rules were following that strict interpretation.

But we are probably not going to be in that world. And if AI brings (at least some of) the benefits to productivity some claim, I would want open source to benefit from that as much as big tech certainly will. So I support the decision Nc made, despite concerns.

@mirabilos @glitzersachen @datenwolf @dalias @The4thCircle @kestral

Mja, reality doesn't always bend law the way us techies would like it to. To be clear, if it were up to me, it would be as you describe. But its judges and lawmakers that decide, the technical reality is secondary often to economic incentives.

Then again, I think the current copyright, often extended to 70 years after an author's death, is also completely out of whack. I think 5-10 years is more than enough.

@dalias @datenwolf @The4thCircle @kestral well, as I said - I didn’t make a moral argument…

I must say, I am torn. In the 90s and early 2000s I was very much opposed to the overly strict and expansive copyright (“Disney laws”) pushed back then. But I am not sure I appreciate the reversal, given the reasons and benefactors… I’m with you in that regard.

Still, free software was always a hack of copyright law. Maybe this is fine?

@dalias @datenwolf @The4thCircle @kestral yeah it will differ between countries, but I think incentives will probably go the same direction globally. Note that copyright would never have been as strict as it is in most countries had the US not pushed for that. And now the US starts pushing in the opposite direction, well…

@datenwolf @dalias @The4thCircle @kestral

In the end, these are legal claims that will be (are being) adjudicated in court. And, lawmakers can modify these rules.

I am quite sure that AI generated code, even if considered a copyright problem by a court at one point or another, will be made legal. The stakes are too high for lawmakers not to.

That’s not a moral judgement, to be clear. Just my belief of what will happen.

Year of the Linux desktop? Did I just hear that from Linus? No, not that Linus… the other one. No, THAT other one 👇 #KDE #kde_plasma ftw!

https://youtu.be/5fXAELrljqs?is=d29e23A1zMNQXvx0

If you want to put a spotlight on somebody who contributed a ton to #opensource and #DigitalSovereignty - nominate them for the #Nextcloud awards! Still open until mid march ;-)

https://nextcloud.com/nextcloud-awards/

Did you know #Microsoft is shutting down Chinese universities by blocking access to their services? When will this come to Europe and the rest of the world? How dependent on Microsoft or Google is the day to day work in your organization?

Here's an example, one of many: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3305889/microsoft-abruptly-cuts-services-chinese-university-genomics-firm

@bert_hubert @niels @Karlitschek I don't know what this is, but if it is/was decided at company level to send info on user profiles to us, I'm pretty sure I'd know about it. And I don't. Nor did we change our ToS because we don't have one 🤔

Buuuut bugs exist. And there are 300 apps in our app store that we can't all check line by line. So I assume this could be a security issue. Please, @niels could you report this with the logs to our security team? Use hackerone.com/nextcloud