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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 23:39:14 JST Aral Balkan

   The beauty of “open source” software is that it can be enclosed at anytime.

   The beauty of “free software” is that it cannot.

   Beauty is clearly in the eye of the beholder.

   #openSource #openForBusiness #corporations #freeSoftware #freeAsInFreedom #people

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 00:00:49 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Arne Babenhauserheide

     @ArneBab Of course, no need to ask (although I appreciate it) :)

   • Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 00:00:50 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     @aral Full ack — that’s a great quote!

     (may I quote you on that on https://www.draketo.de/zitate ?)

   • Filipe (filipesm@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:30:23 JST Filipe

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     • Raul Portales

     @Sh41 why? I'm curious

     @aral

   • Raul Portales (sh41@androiddev.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:30:25 JST Raul Portales

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     • Filipe

     @filipesm @aral it's a matter of personal values. I used to prefer GPL, now I lean towards MIT

   • Filipe (filipesm@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:30:26 JST Filipe

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     • Raul Portales

     @Sh41 GPL best one

     @aral

   • Raul Portales (sh41@androiddev.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:30:27 JST Raul Portales

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     @aral it definitely depends on what your values are. I think MIT / Apache licensing is the ultimate freedom

   • Raul Portales (sh41@androiddev.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:30:53 JST Raul Portales

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     • Filipe

     @filipesm @aral the ultimate freedom is to allow people to do what they want with your code, even if that means that they close it.
     Basically, what Apple did with Unix.