You want open source treated well? Remove IP protections from closed-source projects.
It’s like patents versus trade secrets. If you show your work and agree to let anyone play with it, there are incentives provided. If you rely on secrecy… and people figure it out anyway… tough shit.
Sorry, it just sounds like it was leading to some “ah-HA!” reversal, being so brief and general in response to normative statements about a complex topic.
Removing DRM is generally somewhere between outright illegal and getting attacked by flesh-eating lawyers.
Blizzard killed an independent Warcraft / Starcraft server called BNetD.
Nintendo’s whole attitude toward emulation is infuriating nonsense pushing for digital art to slowly rot.
When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly....
Paul versus Baby Driver really illustrates what Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s chemistry bring to a movie versus what Edgar Wright’s directing brings to a movie.
And even in combination, the trio only nailed it two out of three times. The World’s End is just… okay.
It’s mutual. I don’t necessarily extend my expectations of a machine doing what I tell it to, out into geopolitics.
There’s a lot of overlap in useful terminology and philosophy. There’s a bit of overlap in organizational problem-solving (and problem-having). But you can be aggressively capitalist, and still recognize the benefits of stone-soup development. Even in hardware - RISC-V is going to undercut low-end ARM in embedded applications, and hard-drive manufacturers are not exactly Spanish republicans.
Case in point. You think quoting an argument and sneering is a counterargument. Obviously, because you don’t know the first thing about labor theory of value.
Someone asked if you think capitalists or engineers did the engineering, and you revealed you don’t understand the question.
No dude, you demonstrably said ‘I’m going to repeat your argument so you can think about it.’ Projecting some emotional state onto me is not gonna change how you fucked this up.
This is mockery. I am calling you ignorant.
I am trying to highlight how you joined an explicitly leftist server, whilst remaining aggressively unaware of… genuinely the first things people learn about leftism. So when you try smugly posturing your way out of a pointed question, you’re just revealing you know less than nothing.
To be utterly frank I just lack respect for people who think of themselves as any flavour of anarchist while still dreaming of a system as thoroughly rigid as the artificially created Internet.
Anarchists being naked hippies, of course, not organized laborers. The internet was mostly designed and operated by academics. It runs on half a century of “does this sound right?” collaborative standards. Whatever browser you’re reading this in has its origins in anti-monopolist diehards building better software out of spite.
None of which is even addressing the initial failure. Capital didn’t design your computer. Intel’s founders definitely did, but only because they were workers dissatisfied under Fairchild, who were in turn workers dissatisfied under Shockley. The early history of silicon valley is halfway to semiconductor co-ops.
Copyright should be irrelevant immediately, for most of that.
Someone modifying software you sold them is not a pirate. Licenses mean nothing.
Someone sharing a game you stopped selling is a pirate, but if you don’t want money, who cares?
Someone sharing clips of old sports games is not competing with your live broadcast business.
Intellectual property laws don’t need to be brief, to be sane. Most things that rights-cartels freak out over are downright stupid. We can give them what they need without tolerating their every paranoid want. These laws only exist to benefit us.
Simplicity is useful here. I’m willing to spot people a nice round number for ample opportunity to sell their thing. Especially if it means the date on the cover is a guarantee.
19 January 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Don't read classical philosophers, they're cringe (sh.itjust.works)
I will take no questions, thank you.
Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
18 January 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Put me in the trash can at the park. (lemmy.world)
Hate when it happens (lemmy.kde.social)
Light is light 🤷 (sh.itjust.works)
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What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it (www.theregister.com)
Perens says there are several pressing problems that the open source community needs to address....
Film studios demand IP addresses of people who discussed piracy on Reddit (arstechnica.com)
add finger guns for max coolness (lemmy.ml)
Don't be that guy. (lemmy.world)
When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly....
Why are so many people downloading the movie Paul all of a sudden?
imgur.com/a/diDzw63...
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (en.wikipedia.org)
Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out (i.imgur.com)
The "Steamboat Willie" debacle or: Why IP does us more harm than good (lemmy.world)
Hello frens,...