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Must be nice to be so privileged! I hope every damaging thing you are apathetic about happening to other people happens to you so that you are able to test your

Must be nice to be so privileged! I hope every damaging thing you are apathetic about happening to other people happens to you so that you are able to test your principles in the most comprehensive way.

matheusmoreira 3y ago
No need to hope, I generally try to put my money where my mouth is. I give away my software under copyleft licenses. My website has no advertising, no tracking, nothing. I have no intention of ever suing anyone for license violations either. I have a sponsors thing which I think is a perfectly ethical way to make money since it doesn't depend on artificial scarcitiy. It's currently sitting at zero dollars per month and I'm not complaining about it. I don't even advertise it because I think advertising is unethical. I try not to post my projects unless people ask me about them. Whatever wealth I have was not earned by means of intellectual property. If you find instances where I'm contradicting my beliefs, I give you free license to call me out on it in public. I will either try to justify myself or try to change immediately if I can't.
- catapart 3y ago
  I didn't say anything about hypocrisy; I don't care how you comport yourself or whatever personal restraints or actions you use to justify how you eschew empathy for ideological purity. You think you're unique? Or particularly virtuous? All of my software and licenses (and contributions) are CC0. How is that relevant? It's not. What I hope for you is that when you are reliant on something, it is stripped from you without regard for how you need it, and hopefully using a particular kind of logic that you find repugnant. That would be an appropriate reversal of the ideology you are preaching. I hope that you lose something you NEED and that the people that could help you simply won't. Not out of inability but out of ideology. I hope that it happens to you not because it would be distressing to you, but because I am confident that such experiences can make one understand how ideological purity (in any specific aspect, logic included) is not a particularly useful measure of the validity or utility of an ideology as it pertains to applicable function. And if it doesn't, then your argument is only enriched by having experienced it. It's a win-win, if you're interested in the type of rigidly structured nonsense you're expressing.
  - matheusmoreira 3y ago
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    - catapart 3y ago
      Thank you, that is good to hear. I hope it continues to happen to you in more dire circumstances such that your education continues to enrich. I hope that you are so marginalized by ideology that you can no longer be, just like you advocate for those reliant on the values of IP. I hope that your education continues until you can be an example of the perfect version of what it means to have those engaging in ideological purity decide that you are an 'unfortunate consequence' of rearranging society in their image. I'll take your silence as a realization of said pinnacle, and any future responses as indicative of your need for further education. And, in those cases, please understand that I am continually hoping for your success in that. Bonne soirée!
      - satvikpendem 3y ago
        > I'll take your silence as a realization of said pinnacle, and any future responses as indicative of your need for further education. Man, this kind of tit for tat arguing is really not what HN is made for and it is very uninteresting to read, especially with thinly veiled insults like this one.
        catapart 3y ago
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        dang 3y ago
        Please don't post like this here. I understand how annoying these exchanges can be, but users here (all of us, including me) need to learn to metabolize this annoyance so that we can either post something more interesting, or let go and move on. (Obviously the other user was equally at fault) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

matheusmoreira 3y ago

No need to hope, I generally try to put my money where my mouth is. I give away my software under copyleft licenses. My website has no advertising, no tracking, nothing. I have no intention of ever suing anyone for license violations either. I have a sponsors thing which I think is a perfectly ethical way to make money since it doesn't depend on artificial scarcitiy. It's currently sitting at zero dollars per month and I'm not complaining about it. I don't even advertise it because I think advertising is unethical. I try not to post my projects unless people ask me about them. Whatever wealth I have was not earned by means of intellectual property. If you find instances where I'm contradicting my beliefs, I give you free license to call me out on it in public. I will either try to justify myself or try to change immediately if I can't.

catapart 3y ago
I didn't say anything about hypocrisy; I don't care how you comport yourself or whatever personal restraints or actions you use to justify how you eschew empathy for ideological purity. You think you're unique? Or particularly virtuous? All of my software and licenses (and contributions) are CC0. How is that relevant? It's not. What I hope for you is that when you are reliant on something, it is stripped from you without regard for how you need it, and hopefully using a particular kind of logic that you find repugnant. That would be an appropriate reversal of the ideology you are preaching. I hope that you lose something you NEED and that the people that could help you simply won't. Not out of inability but out of ideology. I hope that it happens to you not because it would be distressing to you, but because I am confident that such experiences can make one understand how ideological purity (in any specific aspect, logic included) is not a particularly useful measure of the validity or utility of an ideology as it pertains to applicable function. And if it doesn't, then your argument is only enriched by having experienced it. It's a win-win, if you're interested in the type of rigidly structured nonsense you're expressing.
- matheusmoreira 3y ago
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  - catapart 3y ago
    Thank you, that is good to hear. I hope it continues to happen to you in more dire circumstances such that your education continues to enrich. I hope that you are so marginalized by ideology that you can no longer be, just like you advocate for those reliant on the values of IP. I hope that your education continues until you can be an example of the perfect version of what it means to have those engaging in ideological purity decide that you are an 'unfortunate consequence' of rearranging society in their image. I'll take your silence as a realization of said pinnacle, and any future responses as indicative of your need for further education. And, in those cases, please understand that I am continually hoping for your success in that. Bonne soirée!
    - satvikpendem 3y ago
      > I'll take your silence as a realization of said pinnacle, and any future responses as indicative of your need for further education. Man, this kind of tit for tat arguing is really not what HN is made for and it is very uninteresting to read, especially with thinly veiled insults like this one.
      - catapart 3y ago
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        dang 3y ago
        Please don't post like this here. I understand how annoying these exchanges can be, but users here (all of us, including me) need to learn to metabolize this annoyance so that we can either post something more interesting, or let go and move on. (Obviously the other user was equally at fault) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html