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If each FAANG released backend code: * Facebook: We'd learn what sorts of data collection and aggregation they do, and how metrics are planned and gamed. * Ap
by Kednicma 6y ago
If each FAANG released backend code:
* Facebook: We'd learn what sorts of data collection and aggregation they do, and how metrics are planned and gamed.
* Apple: We'd learn something about the App Store rejection policy, and we'd also get to jailbreak and repair our phones.
* Amazon: We'd find out how their billing and egress policies really work. We'd also get to see how customers are tracked.
* Netflix: Oh look, tracking of customers, something we'd learn.
* Google: Customers, tracking, etc. But also they know stuff about their long-term hardware vendor partners.
How would this not make the world a better place? It's clearly in line with both the copyleft programme of ending copyright protections on source code, and also more general anti-corporate and anti-surveillance ideologies.
- kemotep 6y agoThis license doesn't require them to share the source though, just limit who is allowed to use it. Is that reading of the license wrong, is my question. They specifically mention not caring if source code is shared but if the companies that utilize software licensed with this license are worker collectives or not. Which is why I feel it would be better to advocate for the [A]GPL as that would result in the situation you describe.
- Kednicma 6y agoGoogle has a public AGPL policy [0], so advocating for it will not have the effect that you like. [0] https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
- kemotep 6y agoThe page you linked says Google bans the use of AGPL code in their core products. Are you saying that since Google has a public policy banning the use of AGPL code in their products there is no use in advocating for a 4 freedom respecting copyleft license?