Re: Stallman and the more important "ethical source"

I feel there is a more sinister plot going on here, and Stallman for all his faults, maybe isn't the real issue that needs to be discussed here.

In Support Of Richard Stallman

Are we under attack?

This is maybe the 3rd or 4th time this month I hear something along the lines of "fair source", "ethical source" or some dumb third or fourth version of this. Make no mistake, what they all mean is closed source with different labelling.

They are basically labelling poison as diet coke and hoping we will drink it. What most of these licenses are engineered to do, is to seem commercially friendly, while respecting the community effort. Once you start digging into it though, you start to see the cracks, put there on purpose.

The backers

The even scarier part that should concern everyone, is how not involved Microsoft, RedHat and so on are in this, while actually being involved through shell corporations and daughter companies or even just part ownerships.

to take over or destroy the leadership of the FSF and the GNU Project

I unfortunately think it goes deeper than this, much deeper. We've seen many project assassinations in recent years, skirting of FOSS licenses and many other disgusting tricks to circumvent, steal or destroy projects for corporate gain. CentOS and Freenode comes to mind.

If they can get people to adopt these licenses to replace GPL, MIT or similar FOSS licenses, they create a back door for stealing the code and reselling it as commercial closed source, without paying a dime in hostile takeovers.

Make no mistake, we are under attack

It's absolutely absurd that we have come to this level of foil hatting, but here we are. There is a very obvious, maybe too obvious to believe, attempt on the life of FOSS.

We all need to dig our heels in and reject these heinous licensing agreements, no good will come of it and we might very well kill the core beliefs we hold so dear.

The biggest question you have to ask yourself, even if you don't believe anything I say, is, who stands to gain from this?

There are thousands of FOSS projects, that have a commercial arm, that is thriving. So the whole blurb these new "ethical" licenses are trying to promote, under the guise of making FOSS profitable, who is that for exactly?

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Created 2024-10-18 - Updated 2024-10-19

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