AnanasMarko

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[–] AnanasMarko 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honest question: "Without any authority who gets to enforce the rules?". Everyone, as they see fit it seems. What makes "your" hierarchy better than "my" hierarchy?

[–] AnanasMarko 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Disagree. If FOSS were an anarchism what would be the point of FOSS lincences of which some are very long legal documents? Also corporations would just take your code, say its theirs and tell you to go fuck yourself.

[–] AnanasMarko 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, I agree. And Creative Commons are a great example of peoples' control over their work. My argument is that it wont be 'the original artist' who gets to interpret the licensing terms.

If I may take your example of border patrol abusing immigrants with your software. And I'm sorry for the trivial example beforehand.

Let's say you put in licensing terms: "This software may not be used to endanger peoples lives and/or livelyhoods". And software is used by both Border Patrol and the immigrants to protect/cross the border.

Both parties come before a judge, accusing the other party of misusing your software. Border patrol says the immigrants are endangering american people with crime etc. ,and the immigrants accuse the border patrol of violent beatings.

In whose favor would a judge decide?

P.S.: thanks for the link. I'm a huge Tom Waits fan, and had no idea about the voice-theft.

[–] AnanasMarko 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

While we might not agree with immigration policy and power abuse, it's hard to put moral limitations on who gets to use our software. While the example you gave is far from trivial.

The second we say someone can't use our software for whatever reason, that's the second the software is no longer truly free. It's same with Open data.

If you set in writing that your software can be used by anyone, then you also take away the power of those in high places to interpret the licence in a discriminatory way.

[–] AnanasMarko 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That may be true, but there is (usually) also an upside. Any fixes and modifications must be shared back. Thank you copyleft licenses. Thank you GPL.

[–] AnanasMarko 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you connect i/o devices to it?

[–] AnanasMarko 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Whoa, uncanny. This gives me some real "Ljubljana vibes". It's probbably someplace in Austria tho, right? Going by the flag.

[–] AnanasMarko 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

To me it feels texting takes longer. Call someone up and it's done in less than a minute. Why write some long ass message?

Most folks don't even bother writing back... Message seen? Best forget about it.

Edit: typo

[–] AnanasMarko 16 points 1 year ago

That's quite an emoji you got there 🍆

[–] AnanasMarko 2 points 1 year ago

Damn, how'd that get me :)

[–] AnanasMarko 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Uh, is there a kind soul that has a link to a mirror of any of the mentioned youtube videos that were taken down? I'd realy like to see what it looked like - talking to random NPCs on the streets ov GTA V.

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