The problem is that some people are “so copyleft”… that they fall into the MIT honeytrap.

For me it got fixed in 1.20.0 from May 8, 2024.

2010 was already tainted by the iPhone walled garden.

Windows users call that “installing”… 😈

When was that?

The official F-Droid app had an issue with not deleting downloads on systems that didn’t run it correctly in the background. That has been fixed some months ago.

+1 to that comment format.

It works not just for fascists, but also for flerfers, religious zealots, and in general anyone not willing to engage in a rational discussion.

(TIL about “rice”… is anything in the US not racist? 🤦)

My thoughts are… that I’ll see if ChatGPT or something can remove the chaff from that PDF, because oh man, is it full of it.

The news media publishes only sanitized images

[…]

[ warning: graphic descriptions of violence ]

Thanks for the heads-up, and for putting the whole section in italics, so we can skip it easier… oh the irony!

It’s a “sister organization”. Laws are different in different parts of the world, so it makes sense to have different “forks” if you wish.

https://fsfe.org/about/fsfnetwork.en.html

Yes, that autist that’s done more in 40 years than anyone else in the world.

The one that doesn’t have any translations

Seems to have some translations:

https://fsfe.org/

Parldigi

What is your proposal for a “worldwide” Parliamentary Group? Do we wait to establish a World Parliament, along with a World Government, or is there something we could do in the meantime?

Like this?

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom

Est. 1985.

Thank you for publishing it under a permissive license.

Screenshot for reference?

Option to change it to any flag?

From the first 15 min of the edited video: that FUTO boss is an embarrassment, good on Rossman to get him to change things.

I don’t really want to watch the remaining hour, after someone says things like:

• He didn’t follow the discussions back in the 2000s
• OSI didn’t hijack the “open source” definition
• Less than 1000 people would care
• Asked his programmers, and they didn’t care

I call BS. Weak excuses.

There is a reason people say “FLOSS” instead of “Open Source”. There is a reason Stallman says what he says. There is a reason you can tell apart who understands what’s going on, by whether they understand the differences or not.

A quick reminder:

• Free - as in beer, not as in freedom
• Libre - as in freedom
• Open Source - you can see the source code

Stallman created the GPL to allow people to see (open) and change (libre) the code (source)… then “pay forward” that freedom, in echange for being able to charge money (non-free) for their contributions.

He often referred to it as simply “Open Source”… which turned out to be a mistake. Very soon (as in pre-1990), it became clear that there were two more competing camps for the “Open Source” definition:

• Academia - people who got paid anyway, whether they saw a penny from their software or not
• Business - who wanted to get as much money as possible, for as cheap as possible

Both those camps aligned with licenses where developers gave up all their rights, but anyone could very easily take them back and claim as their own (“closing” the software). Famous examples are Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

The “Open Source Initiative” was created to gatekeep the “Open Source” definition, by keeping a list of licenses that were “OSI compliant”. A side effect of that gatekeeping, was erasing the understanding of the terms “Free” and “Libre” from the public’s minds.

Plenty more than “1000 people” understood what was going on, and were against OSI, seeing it as an EEE move from the Business camp.

People new to it, started using the term “open source” (as per OSI) without a care, only to later realize the Business camp was taking advantage of them… [surprised Pikachu face]

This FUTO boss is not young or inexperienced, he’s a Business-man who, not surprisingly, decided to use a license with a closing clause, that he used the chance to call “Open Source” by exploiting people’s lack of understanding.

ensuring companies don’t try to profit on what they give away.

That’s a common misunderstanding of FLOSS software: it isn’t about “not letting others profit”, it’s about “you need to give back in order to profit”.

If a company wants to profit from someone else’s GPL licensed software, they can do it in exchange for letting the original company profit from the second one’s changes to the software.

If you don’t want to profit from other people’s changes to your software, then by all means, use a more restrictive license, there won’t be changes in the first place.

If you’re a user expecting the software to work after the original company got bored with it or gone under, then you want either a different company to take over, or you’re SOL.