Post #3852882
2026-07-16 07:09 UTC
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@tinker@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 07:09
@alxd@writing.exchange - Well put.
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@jadehopepunk@hachyderm.io 2026-07-16 07:25
@alxd@writing.exchange @tinker@infosec.exchange I'm not sure it's much of a difference. Free Software is political *only* about openness. "Freedom 0" clearly states that it must be free to use for any purpose, even genocide. That's still pretty tech-bro.
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-07-16 12:41
@alxd@writing.exchange @tinker@infosec.exchange you know the one big GPL kernel is the one falling down this rabbit hole, and the BSDs are the ones saying "hell no" to it, right? You know the emacs project pre-emptively forked because they don't trust GNU to set good policy after the temporary hold, right? The four freedoms way of thinking has always been too libertarian to meet these kind of moments, and they're squatting the term "free software," which means that if we want a movement that actually addresses the inherent political nature of software, we need new language - which is hard, but we can at least not divert credit to the exact people fumbling the topic of AI right now.