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"but the reality of working on free software is that you give up the possibility of choosing who can and cannot use it from the get-go" I always wonder why wok

"but the reality of working on free software is that you give up the possibility of choosing who can and cannot use it from the get-go" I always wonder why wokeism hasn't reached software licenses yet? Just imagine the anger when it would come to a FOSS dev team's attention that <insert-evil-group> is using their product, successfully even... "of course we would prefer if people so antithetical to our values did not use" I mean just the effort involved by a lot of people in the dev community to dig something up: "findings that various people have presented to us," While the stated proprietary licensing text could be easily just a beta version, or totally fine anyways (I'm not a lawyer), but definitely something other projects would get a pass for. You know, a nicely written e-mail not making any fuzz. In a way this fuzz mastodon makes out of it, is exactly the PR a Trump would want, no?

maeln 5y ago
> Just imagine the anger when it would come to a FOSS dev team's attention that <insert-evil-group> is using their product, successfully even... Err, this is something a lot of FOSS dev' have been complaining about actually. There has been complain in the past directed toward Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and many top-100 company for using free software without contributing anything back (code or financial support), or again, because they are disliked by the original FOSS team. This "woke" word has been thrown around left and right at this point and is completely nonsensical, like SJW before that.
justin66 5y ago
> I always wonder why wokeism hasn't reached software licenses yet? The license you’re waiting for was JSLint. It was brilliant and the effect it had on users was a hilarious thing to behold: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035 Nothing involving Trump’s projects will provoke the same sort of hilarity. A desire to avoid litigation on the part of the user, combined with at least a minimal, superficial concern over good and evil, are necessary for the gag to work.

maeln 5y ago

> Just imagine the anger when it would come to a FOSS dev team's attention that <insert-evil-group> is using their product, successfully even... Err, this is something a lot of FOSS dev' have been complaining about actually. There has been complain in the past directed toward Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and many top-100 company for using free software without contributing anything back (code or financial support), or again, because they are disliked by the original FOSS team. This "woke" word has been thrown around left and right at this point and is completely nonsensical, like SJW before that.

justin66 5y ago

> I always wonder why wokeism hasn't reached software licenses yet? The license you’re waiting for was JSLint. It was brilliant and the effect it had on users was a hilarious thing to behold: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035 Nothing involving Trump’s projects will provoke the same sort of hilarity. A desire to avoid litigation on the part of the user, combined with at least a minimal, superficial concern over good and evil, are necessary for the gag to work.