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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:30:21 JST Aral Balkan

   • Raul Portales
   • Filipe

   @Sh41 @filipesm

   1. Unix is proprietary
   2. NeXT/Apple enclosed BSD
   3. Trillion-dollar corporations enclosing the commons isn’t the stunning win for social justice and freedom that it might appear to be.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:59:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Raul Portales
     • Filipe

     @Sh41 @filipesm In a world where everyone was equal, sure.

     In a world where a handful of corporations have trillions of dollars and you’re an individual, they can take what you have, invest millions on top, and not share back (embrace/extend/extinguish).

     It’s simple: some folks think they should be able to take without giving back. Others think if you take, you should also give back. I’m in the latter camp. I want to nurture a healthy commons for the common good, not breed billionaires.

   • Raul Portales (sh41@androiddev.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 06:59:41 JST Raul Portales

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     • Filipe

     @aral @filipesm yes, you're right, I meant BSD.

     I was merely talking about giving freedom to *anyone* to do *whatever* with the code.

     Trillion dollar corporations will always find a way to exploit the system, maybe others would benefit for these type of licenses as well.

     Ultimately it's a question of values.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 15:33:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Raul Portales
     • Filipe
     • stormbringer

     @stormbringer They’re just lovely people, yes. God save our new CEO kings.

     @Sh41 @filipesm

   • stormbringer (stormbringer@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 15:33:03 JST stormbringer

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     • Raul Portales
     • Filipe

     @aral @Sh41 @filipesm most billionaires are also philanthropists and arguably do more good than a government would with the same funds but corporations who buy politicians and politicians who get rich off of regulating the market in favor of said corporations are probably the most evil enterprises humans can engage in IMHO