Ah, I see. It’s just that to me that’s a settled discussion and it seems to have been for a few decades now. Free software has to be open source to be free. But not all open source software is free software. That we agree on. It seems we just have different interpretations of the history. If you bother to read the free software manifesto, stallman actually uses the term open source and it also defines that free software must be open to allow three of the four fundamental freedoms to exist. Your objections seem to be political rather than philosophical. E.g. who gets to decide or control what projects are defined as what.

I see what you are saying, and I understand what you are referring to.

It was stallman himself who, after working in GNU for years, went on the invent the concept of free and open software. I’m not doing any mash up. I’m referring to the 4 fundamental freedoms of free software as associated together by stallman himself and protected by the free software foundation.

If you could provide sources it would be useful as the history of these concepts is pretty much a living history. Since the people who coined them are still alive and still write copiously about the philosophical implications of the movement.

I have to say honestly I can’t find anything that supports your comment. Perhaps only tangentially, if one assumes that some so far unarticulated and shadowy movement of Open source promotes only source available software.

Are you referring to Bruce Perens definition of open source that is used by the open source initiative? Because they are not antagonists of the free software foundation. While it’s true that it also extends to proprietary but source available software, this has been considered widely a positive rather than negative. Although different points of view exist in the analysis of how the four fundamental freedoms interact.

It’s not racism to point out that a flight from the east coast of the US to the west coast is the exact same as a flight from Lisbon to Oslo. Physics don’t bend according to flags. I’m just pointing out that this idea is the product of US exceptionalism and the arbitrariness of the human conceptualization of what a country is. France is as large as California. But being in the US doesnt mean California is magically larger. You’re just deciding to compare different political and demographically distinct concepts.

Again, I’m not comparing people, I’m comparing transportation infrastructure. Of course people choose to fly or to drive on Europe according to distances. Just like in the US. It’s you who are xenophobically insisting on portraying the US as special, when it is not.

Yeah, But the US is a federation of States. It’s not that deep to understand. A member of the EU can move freely from country to country just like people can do the same from state to state in the US. The difference is that you can cross France and reach Barcelona from Paris in the same time it takes to drive the distance of Los Angeles to Las Vegas, roughly 6 hours by train. Except Paris and Barcelona (1000 miles) are 3 times further apart than those two US cities (300mi). Infrastructure has a great impact in perception of space and distances. The US is not that big, but it can seem to be when the most common transportation method is the least efficient. Each state is about the same average size as most countries in the world. It’s just that their transportation infrastructure (including highways) suck ass.

Even driving the highways let you do the distance in 10 hours. Twice the time but three times the distance.

Even then, being a small country doesn’t stop the French from knowing that Africa is not a single country.

“Texas is larger than France” means nothing. My country is larger than Texas, and one of my states is larger than Switzerland but also larger than North Carolina. That’s a non argument, that’s just physics. Again, size is not some exceptional property of the US.

Love the attitude, but the concepts are a bit wonky.

There’s Free as in freedom (usually referred to with the Latin word “libre”), and Free as in free beer. Open source is just the ability to read and contribute to the source code. Not all open source is free, but libre (freedom) software has to be open source.

That’s why it is usually referred as FLOSS, Free and Libre Open Source Software.

There’s a myriad of licenses, not just GPL, and GPL is not the only FLOSS license.

There are source available software projects, that do not adhere to liberty principles. There’s also free software (as in free beer), that is not open source or even source available.

Blender is open source and also free software, and also libre software. Because Blender is FLOSS. This, however, does not prevent some specific forms of enshittyfication. It’s just that forking the base source code is always a possibility.

Edit: Ok, forget the love attitude part. You just called two men who have a disability and are some of the corner stones of the free software movement “corporate lickspittle”. Wow, you have to be an ignorant piece of shit to call the man who conceived the ‘bazaar’ thesis that defines FLOSS a lickspittle, an utter idiot to call a man who hates proprietary software a corporate lickspittle. Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond may not be saints, no person is perfect. But you are just dismissing and insulting people who are the reason you can exist with a modicum of freedom on the internet space.

People act like they are at gunpoint. It’s perfectly fine to go “Hi, I’m Dusty, nice to meet you.” And leave it at that, no matter how much the extroverts before you ranted on about themselves. In my experience 99% of the time people feel just as apprehensive as you and don’t really care. Now, if the entire point of the meeting is to introduce a team, please, just fucking cooperate. I’ve worked with too many people who refuse to participate on the meetings, and they make workflows so unnecessarily obstructive. I want to finish my task and go home as well, just pay attention to the communication tools, I don’t care how much of a mystery you like to portray yourself as. Specially if our work depends on each other’s coordination.

This is so wrong in so many ways that if you told me it was a The Onion article with a made up map, I would believe you. Nothing makes sense. The lines don’t go anywhere, all the colors are mismatched. The position, but also the size and the shapes are all wrong. I would bet all the data is also made up and have nothing to do with reality.

Americans frequently overestimate how large their own country is. The US is about as large as all of the European union. But the US fits inside Africa nearly 4 times. Australia is roughly the same size as the US. So is China. Rusia is about 1.5 times the size of the US. The US is not special in any way, quit the exceptionalism.

People don’t call them Y’all qaeda for nothing. US Christians want what the theocratic system of Islam promises.

PES was always superior anyways. They own the license now. It’s called eSoccer. EA had to change to FC. They can’t use FIFA stuff anymore.

I’m not the one you asked the question to, just commenting on the general discussion. But let’s play at that. Yes, I have murdered family members. Yes, I’m angry. But my anger won’t stop me from living my life. It’s very important to remember that there are things within our control, and things outside our control. The attitude we assume towards the hardships of life is one of the things under our control. We can’t control how we feel, but we can decide to not let our tragedies dictate our lives. The emotions after tragedies and injustices can be fuel to lead us into meaningful actions. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. The fear people see on others who are consumed by their emotions is not from some need to take a moral high ground. It is fear that we will lose them as well, to grief and depressive spirals.

Even survivor families of murdered people struggle but eventually have to move on and rebuild their lives. Your continuous suffering does not bring them back. Your eventual happiness does not disservice the loss. That’s the hardest part of grief and injustice.

Feeling angry at the event is normal, but if it is crippling your ability to take care of yourself or others who depend on you. Then that is what is unhealthy. Holding on to the pain and anger to the point that you don’t function properly is actively hurting you further.

De facto it is common practice for the US courts to apply US laws to people who are not US citizens and have never been to US soil for things they did abroad. Either to no one in particular or to non US citizens. The empire knows no bounds and understands their own law as universal.

De jure it is going to be a dry, expensive, and long winded debate that will ruin this man’s life thus achieving the political goal.

Always check steamdb.info/sales. They’re always accurate and can help sift through the bundle’s mess.

Dune is the number one counterexample.

Strong world building, faithful to the source, existential messages in line with with the original material’s philosophy, social commentary that doesn’t pander and respects the audience’s intelligence. And on top of all of that, an academy awarded financial blockbuster.

It’s just that, it takes a good film maker that actually understands and respects the source ethos.

I’m happy to proclaim entering my 30th continuous year of Sony boycotting. Where’s my award?

It was never openly stated. Whatever they write on that matter will certainly be a retcon. There’s no canonical reason for Deckard to not die just as any other synth. He was just a glorified executioner after all. It is like putting WiFi on a letter opener. Sure, it could be done, but what’s the point? There’s no in universe reason for that to happen.

With art it is a bit more complex than that. Think of a photographer. Many people love photography, not all people love wedding photography, for example. It is not a great idea to have someone who loathes wedding photography as the photographer at your wedding. But, there’s no shortage of photographers who don’t like weddings working it because it is the most predictable and lucrative income source for a professional photographer. The results will depend on the level of professionalism of the party involved, sure they are doing it for money. But it is not hard to imagine that a photographer who actively enjoys the subject matter will turn out a more satisfying result than someone who, however professional, is only going through the motions. This is how many a couple end up with boring cookie cutter photos of the most important ceremony of their romantic relationship and quickly end up burying it in a basement or closet somewhere, never to be seen again.

This is incredibly limiting as a mindset. Movies can absolutely have strong world building, existential messages and social commentary, and also be accessible and entertaining. It’s just that, you have to be a good filmmaker to achieve that.

In universe lore is that synthetics are pre programmed to die. They live very short lives. That’s like, the whole plot of the first blade runner.