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by davisr 2y ago
You must read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
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by davisr 2y ago
I make substantial income by selling copies of my AGPLv3-licensed program for $12/ea.
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Stagit: Static Git Page Generator(codemadness.org)
2 points by davisr 2y ago|1 comments
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by davisr 2y ago
> One-in-three U.S. adults ages 18 to 34 live in their parents’ home, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/03/in-the-u-... > Nearly 4 in 1
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by davisr 2y ago
Something like 30% of 30-year-olds still live with their parents. Almost 40% of American adults cannot afford a $400 emergency expense. People are suffering and you're indifferent because you exist in a different class.
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by davisr 2y ago
Many people use the term "open-source", but this is truly a matter of software freedom. Microsoft won't ever be able to compete with free/libre and self-determination because their business model is predicated upon captu
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by davisr 3y ago
John Barnett, the Boeing quality assurance whistleblower who was found dead in his car from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound, said "I'm not going to set foot on an airplane today." https://www.nytimes.com&
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Colin Percival, the New Release Engineering Team Lead(freebsdfoundation.org)
4 points by davisr 3y ago|0 comments
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by davisr 3y ago
> This changes ... who makes decisions in society. Does it? Seems to me that wealthy bankers still control society.
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by davisr 3y ago
There isn't a single part of my life that is affected by this. Good riddance; Facebook is a psychological cancer.
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by davisr 3y ago
Oh, you're right, let's just not even try and wallow in self-pity while we continue to be slaves to megacorporations. Or...just choose free software yourself, so that _you_ don't get used by these entities who seek to elimina
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by davisr 3y ago
Free software (libre -- free as in freedom) is the antidote to this entire mess. We should always choose free software whenever we can, so that we cannot get used by agents of corporate media in their hunt for more loot. https://
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New SiriusXM Website/App – Feedback Megathread(old.reddit.com)
1 points by davisr 3y ago|0 comments
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by davisr 3y ago
Welcome to mass media, everything you see is "curated" (ahem...censored by @dang).
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by davisr 3y ago
That's a pretty lousy take. Obviously, stuff that executes as your user act on your user data. Why would you even have a line of code that you don't trust on your machine? `chown` it if you care that much. Also, to the parent comm
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by davisr 3y ago
> GPL will disuade most commercial projects from using your library Maybe, but it might just as well persuade others who value free software ideals to contribute.
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by davisr 3y ago
How the heck did this ever make it through? I don't think this ever would have happened pre-OpenZFS, and undermines the stable reputation of ZFS. OpenZFS needs to do better and look to FreeBSD developers, not Linux developers, as role
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by davisr 3y ago
> I don't actually believe that there is an evil Microsoft master plan. What planet are you living on?
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by davisr 3y ago
"I won't take his ideas seriously because of superficial reasons, and I don't have any actual arguments against his thesis, so I must throw mud and hope something sticks."
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by davisr 3y ago
This is the guy who kicked up all the dirt about Red Hat, which IMO was entirely overblown. Not to say that he's a bad dude...but be careful of who you listen to on the Internet.
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by davisr 3y ago
That's by-design, and it's why no one should ever use Microsoft GitHub -- because you don't own your data, Microsoft does.
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by davisr 3y ago
Why did you assume that everyone is motivated by money? After $100k, what difference does it make for one's happiness? Personally, I wouldn't want such a shallow individual working in my government.
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by davisr 3y ago
Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. https://endsoftwarepatents.org/
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by davisr 3y ago
Just buy paperbacks and scan them. Way easier than changing how publishers do things. http://www.davisr.me/projects/books/ On that note, do the same for your CDs and Blu-Rays.
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by davisr 3y ago
That's not really true. Users need to share their modifications ONLY IF they distribute copies of the modified work, and ONLY TO those whom they distributed modified works to. And this is the whole point: that everyone shares in the we
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by davisr 3y ago
Dual license? No! Everyone enjoys the freedoms of the AGPLv3 (or later). Customers can do whatever they want with the program -- that's a selling point!! Customers can use the software for whatever purpose they want. Most of them are e
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by davisr 3y ago
Meanwhile, as someone who sells copies of AGPL software, my customers have told me they wouldn't have even considered paying for a non-free solution. I wouldn't have nearly as far of reach if I restricted how people could use or s
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by davisr 3y ago
This underscores why libre software is so important: if you don't control the software running on your devices, then somebody else does. One day, that somebody /will/ work against your interests. Don't let that happen. A
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by davisr 3y ago
I really enjoyed the service, but there will never be such a grand library of quality media available for such convenience or low cost. I wish more people had seen it that way; physical media must live.
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by davisr 3y ago
How on Earth do you not see how those are related?

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