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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:00:01 JST Aral Balkan

   • sj_zero
   • Jeff Moe
   • Viktor Nagornyy

   @sj_zero @jebba @viktor For fuck’s sake, I wake up every day and write free software and I’ve been doing so for over a decade at great personal expense. Don’t fucking explain to me what FOSS is and isn’t. FOSS licenses may not be ethical but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to be. It doesn’t mean you can’t layer ethical restrictions on top of what you’re building with how you design things. And it sure has hell doesn’t mean you’re compelled to legitimise folks who peddle their wares to the cops.

   • Chris Gioran 💔 (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:15:58 JST Chris Gioran 💔

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     @aral You know, it's going to take a lot of work to reclaim FOSS as the anarchic ideal it needs to be. Right now it's connected to an antiquated idea of playing nicely with big corps that stopped being useful a long time ago.

     We need new licenses and new business models that form their own ecosystem and can viably compete with corporate entities.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:19:59 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Chris Gioran 💔

     @chrisg Exactly.

     This is what I’m trying to push for with the Small Technology principles – https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology – which came out of our earlier work on the Ethical Design Manifesto (https://ind.ie/ethical-design/).

     FOSS alone is not enough.

     #SmallTech #ethicalDesign #freedom #foss

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:28:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

     @Natanox Well there’s one way to find out ;)

   • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:28:33 JST Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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     @aral Interesting manifesto. I wonder how well that could be applied to video games (without risking the livelihood of the devs). 🤔

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:31:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Aenea
     • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

     @aenea @Natanox 💕

     (Please let us know; would be lovely to feature your work.)

   • Aenea (aenea@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2023 15:31:27 JST Aenea

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     • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

     @Natanox @aral Once my transition is stable, I'd really like to explore doing videogames with this kind of approach.