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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 17:07:23 JST Aral Balkan

   • witchescauldron

   @witchescauldron Ah, nice. Although I’d be vary of recommending Creative Commons licenses for software (Lawrence Lessig warned me off of them for that use case a long time ago, citing lack of limitation of liability clauses). And I’d be careful to ensure people understand that liberal licenses like MIT, while “open source”, do not protect the freedom of the software. I almost feel like #4freedoms reflects the philosophy better than #4opens (but would clash with FSF’s 4 freedoms)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 17:10:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     • witchescauldron

     @witchescauldron PS. Not sure our biggest challenge is how to communicate it. It’s how you get, to paraphrase Upton Sinclair, folks to understand it whose salaries depend on their not understanding it.

     (Open source has been adopted so widely specifically because it is “open for business.” Anything that isn’t has a much steeper hill to climb under capitalism.)