2026-11-08 14:51 UTC
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@mpopp75@mastodon.social 2026-11-08 14:59
@Gargron@mastodon.social Most people don't care whether software is free. They only want it to be "gratis". Why would everybody use Google Chrome if they care about free as in free speech?
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-11-08 15:05
@Gargron@mastodon.social this is classic #libertarian shit libertarians sound cool on the surface but when you talk to them closer you find out that to them "freedom" means "i can do whatever i want, even if i harm others" i think "freedom" means "i can do whatever i want, as long as it doesn't impinge upon the freedom of others" #libertarianism and its pathetic immoral attitude is "freedumb" unfortunately there is a lot of such turds in the world you have to be on guard against them they're out there
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@leonid@norden.social 2026-11-08 15:05
@Gargron@mastodon.social FOSS was actually never about people/environment/ethics. It was just another business or destribution model. Maybe beeing open source is not enough. Like "fair trade", how it is developed should be reflected in the name.
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-11-08 15:36
@Gargron@mastodon.social Apropos of nothing, the only email I ever got from a "free software" figurehead over my career was a whiny complaint about documentation being in a PDF file. Ok.
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@iscarlosmolero@landofooo.social 2026-11-08 15:47
@Gargron@mastodon.social Isn’t mastodon slop-coded as well?
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@janneke@todon.nl 2026-11-08 18:10
@Gargron@mastodon.social There is no territory on earth that I know of that doesn't allow slavery.
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@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2026-11-08 19:43
@Gargron@mastodon.social Free Software and the Nazi Bar problem. We should've kicked the Nazis out a long time ago. Now that we're noticing the problem, it's going to be a lot harder (but not impossible!) to give them the boot that they so admire.
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@Fedihacker@masto.es 2026-11-08 19:51
@Gargron@mastodon.social Well, it's only one guy. The process has to respect human rights. The FSF itself rejects the use of proprietary software with one exception: to replace that proprietary software. LLMs are proprietary software. Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/16/fsf-urges-ai-vendors-to-liberate-llms/5221192 If LLMs were libre software, the process probably would respect human rights, too. Staff and Board https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board "They advocate for user freedom because it is a human right, and a vital tool for securing and protecting other human rights."