Especially when sites like Reddit/StackExchange use admin to mean employee and moderator to mean volunteer community leader.

Relevant comment chain: https://programming.dev/comment/12187727

I’m not talking about what should versus shouldn’t happen.

Philosophically I agree, but legally the reality is different.

Ironically it’s a very human error to miss a username change.

I don’t think free software/open source has ever guaranteed the ability to maintain a specific project. Only the freedom to modify the software. They haven’t been stripped of that core freedom from the GPL which is the closest thing there to what I think you’re talking about.

It wasn’t so long ago that Java developers had to download the unlimited strength cryptography extensions separately from the main Java development kit because of export restrictions involving encryption.

Edit: Links for the curious.

• https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-jce-all-downloads.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Cryptography_Extension

neck beards losing their minds over some change they don’t like.

Ughhh, it was so infuriating hearing that guy rant about how Rust was bad and was trying to take over at that conference. I felt so bad for the speaker.

The GPL is certainly “beholden” to laws as well, including a total lack of developer freedom which I personally disagree with.

A lack of freedom from being screwed over by companies stealing your code.

FOSS is inherently political though, but I guess you mean country vs country politics moreso than ideological politics.

Even Bluesky is limiting video uploads heavily. And it’s centralized. (As far as I understand.)

No, you’ve never been able to sign into different fediverse instances with your account (to my knowledge). You can interact with other instances through yours, yes, but you don’t go to the others and sign in.

Any details on that case you remember? Sounds fascinating.

Look, when you’re trying to get your computer working I agree. I don’t mind having to use nonfree stuff if I literally cannot boot otherwise. But if we don’t have strong ideological fighters pushing for things like totally free systems then we wouldn’t be where we are today and we would always have to use non free stuff. So it’s definitely important we have people who are more ideologically idealist.

Wouldn’t an end user of something that should be GPLed be able to request the source?

Ahhhh I see. It makes more sense when you remember there are multiple winners.

What’s going on in round 7?

Yeah, like one of the few things GitHub actually requires you to let people do is press the dang fork button.

Yeah but I’m not gonna sue or risk getting sued over it.

Yeah. It works like a Discord block basically. (Ignoring that Discord doesn’t block users in group voice settings.)