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I ramble about computers and music here.I'm working on a new DJ software in Rust called Moiré: https://codeberg.org/Be.ing/moire
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ff0000 - https://chaos.social/@ff0000 Commiware 😆
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5.51K Posts, 443 Following, 314 Followers · I'm Richard, nice to meet you. #front-end during the day, enjoy my family, play #drums, try my hand at other musical instruments, #design and #program, read, studying shibari / rope bondage in the evening. #javascript #html #css Getting into #hardware, low level programming, ruining my eye-sight with #soldering small things. Interested in (federated) #technology, the web, #music, leftist theory and #praxis. 🏴 ☭ #blackmetal #blastbeats #dissonance #buildnotbuy
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mattl - https://xoxo.zone/@mattl neox - https://pouet.chapril.org/@neox CVS? SVN? Really? What's his reason for not learning Git? A grudge against Linus Torvalds?
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dthompson - https://toot.cat/@dthompson What even is libreboot? coreboot minus proprietary firmware required to make it work at all with some hardware. 🙄https://libreboot.org/docs/#about-the-libreboot-project - https://libreboot.org/docs/#about-the-libreboot-project
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Richard M Stallman
Dee - https://fedi.underscore.world/users/Dee IME this isn't needed. Just say anything about Stallman and the trolls will come out to defend him.
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Hello, I'm Dee, sometimes known as Dee Underscore. I am an adult. I'm trash with some positive qualities. I post. People have alleged I exist. I am hopeless at approving follow requests (serious...
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petros - https://friendica.wprzemianie.pl/profile/petros Maybe Discourse?
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petros - https://friendica.wprzemianie.pl/profile/petros Right, see this part of the thread https://fosstodon.org/@be/105968264493315269 - https://fosstodon.org/@be/105968264493315269
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lxo - https://gnusocial.net/lxo liw - https://toot.liw.fi/@liw This reminds me of the story of Leland Smith and the SCORE software he wrote for sheet music engraving. He refused to let anyone continue his legacy, and as a result the software became unmaintained and abandoned. Fortunately the MuseScore community has kept it alive in their new music font inspired by Leland's work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4PJd1lng&t=971s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4PJd1lng&t=971s
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lxo - https://gnusocial.net/lxo liw - https://toot.liw.fi/@liw I share your concerns but I think your response to addressing them is misguided. I'm sure Microsoft and Apple and Google are delighted to see Stallman criticized and removed from leadership. But I don't think that means we shouldn't do it. We can more effectively fight our adversaries by decentralizing leadership and building a bigger, broader, more inclusive movement than relying on the will of one man (who of course is only mortal and won't be around forever anyway).
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lightweight - https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight @koreymoffett@fosstodon.org - https://fosstodon.org/@[email protected] Right, the point is incentives.
emacsen - https://emacsen.net/@emacsen I don't know. Call it "cooperative culture" if you want? 🤷 It's related but kinda tangential.
emacsen - https://emacsen.net/@emacsen If you emphasize source code, first you have to explain to people who have no idea how computers work what source code is. It's a distraction.
clacke - https://libranet.de/profile/clacke https://fosstodon.org/@be/105968001907706017 - https://fosstodon.org/@be/105968001907706017
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I'll work on significant revision to the "Towards A Communal Software Movement" essay and renaming it to "Towards A Communal Technology Movement". I might not have time today, but hopefully in the next couple of days.
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The recent drama is unsurprising from this perspective. Stallman's response to the challenges of capitalists coming to free software were increasingly futile attempts to retain control. As time went on, I think his assertions of power became increasingly reactionary and absurd. And so it culminated last week in the explosive announcement that he was back in control of the FSF and he didn't care what anyone else thought about it.
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What if Stallman's response was to start calling it "cooperative software" or "communal software"? Maybe more people would have cared to pay attention to what he was saying. But instead he tried to put his ego all over it and generally people didn't care.
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Stallman's response was "tell people that it's really GNU so they learn about why we started GNU". That ship had already sailed years before. People called it "Linux" already and trying to call it "GNU/Linux" at that point came across more as a selfish attempt to take credit than a principled stance for a political agenda. It's also an obviously ineffective communication strategy. If you need an hour long lecture to explain what you're talking about, few people are going to care.
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Dictators for life are a problem. "Open core" is a problem. Proprietary relicensing is a problem. Corporations determining the agenda for software development is a problem. Supporting ICE is a problem. The rhetorics of "open source" and "free software" both fail to articulate how these are problems.
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Stallman was supportive of the early free software businesses like Cygnus. He didn't like what the "open source" people were doing by begging venture capitalists for investment and forming publicly traded corporations with VA and RedHat. But because he didn't critique capitalism, he couldn't articulate what the problem was in a way that many people found appealing. He just dug his heels in.
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Stallman couldn't effectively challenge what was happening with "open source" because he didn't directly critique capitalism. He just dug his heels in, got more dogmatic about insisting on *his* term and insisting that everything keep going his way instead of reflecting on how his tactics were failing and adapting to meet new challenges.