GNU Manifesto published: 1985

(edit: he did that, by the way, because he had had access to the source code of their photocopier at MIT, and the company decided to stop providing that source, which was all the rage in 1985 as Microsoft bootstrapped capitalism, rather than the weird corporate hippiedom of the 70s, as the way of technology.)

Open Source Initiative formed: 1998. There was a manifesto of sorts around 1996 that I recall being the first time I heard people start to use Open Source instead of Free Software, and mash up the two into a single meme, when one them is completely about amputating the ethics of the other.

I like the overall thing, but, how do you explain the loss of cultural memory?

I guess at some point, the false humans could/would program their “global” firmwares to forget, but, at that point they are completely at the mercy of the technology’s ability to self-perpetuate; if it develops problems, they will not even know that it exists (so presumably nanotech) and therefore not know how to fix.

One could posit some group of hidden technologists of indeterminate size, who maintain the systems. Perhaps they are even AI nanomachines that walk around with the very sophisticated automatons.

Biggest question/doubt on my part is, why the hell would any being so advanced as to build a Cylon, ever want to be human?

You didn’t have Open Source until 1996, Free Software was invented by RMS a number of years before that. Where do you get the authority to declare that “Free & Open Source” are somehow connected?

Open Source acquires the methodology of Free Software, while jettisoning the ethics. It came years after and was consciously invented as a way of maintaining control of the software, with the option to Close it anytime they like.

As I said elsewhere, those who control Open Source can Close the Source anytime they like. Free Software cannot. Do you see?

You are doing the mashing up. Free Software came first. Free Software took over all the corporate server rooms, and so in 1996, they invented Open Source, as a means of acquiring the incredible energy of developer communities while maintaining control of the code. They are not the same, they do not come from the same place, and Open Source lacks all ethics.

Anyways, Blender is Free Software; Free Software is inherent Open Source, but it is Open Source that lacks ethics, and there is a long and concerted effort to mash up the two into a single thing. But Open Source is a corporate delusion, which will let you down sooner or later.

Open Source can become Closed Source. Free Software cannot. Do you see?

Blender is Free Software, not Open Source.

Blender will never enshittify. Free Software does not enshittify.

Open Source happens when the devs plan to enshittify sometime in the future, so they do not apply the GPL. You can trust Free Software, whereas trusting Open Source is highly likely to find you needing to pay a subscription, or else the software suddenly becoming garbage (ie. Google Search).

You do love something, but it’s not Open Source.

edit: The responders all seem to think that Open Source is simply an observation about the source code. Yes, Free Software is open source, but it is not Open Source, which is the initiative started in the mid-90s, long after GNU/Linux had begun to completely take over all the server rooms.

So: There is open source code, which yes, is a feature, perhaps the most useful one, of Free Software. But Open Source (capitalized) is a thing invented by some corporate lickspittle, specifically to acquire the methodology, but NOT the Freedom ideology, of Free Software. When you mash them up, you are doing the work of capitalists for them.

Have to say, when I’m strictly looking for hard info, like, what are the command line switches to achieve the right config for a thing, the AI is pretty much always right. It’s not without use, but Doing Things For You is not its best use.

If you want an anti-poster boy for PR, look no further than that great bastion of human rights and democracy, Israel.

That depends on what you are calling Capitalism. I’m all for free markets and such, but Capitalism was never anti-feudal - first thing the Burghers did was marry their kids into Noble families. It was strictly about adding “man with enough money that he doesn’t work” to the protected class.

If I was in the same room, I would want to interrogate your assumptions and your desired outcomes here.

Never has it been more clear what Capitalism is. It has fuckall to do with freedom and everything to do with sharecropping.

If you’re running a site that anyone from the public can sign up to, resources are not some afterthought you add to your argument like pepper. Resources are everything. I have been on this Internet since NCSA Mosaic; look up the term “hugged to death”.

NYPA

Sometime in the last two years, the number of people consider themselves to be programmers has at least doubled. We have a giant contingent of people who have never gone through the hell of actually developing a skill but are now “developers” in much the same way that typing “make me a song like ______” now makes you a musician. No theory, no chords, no building of callouses, just load up our AutoPlagio and dance the night away!

And these sudden Developers and such are all very upset at having their legitimacy questioned by a bunch of… of… NERDS.

Response guy seems to think that “legitimate crypto” is a thing.

My SSH keys are legitimate crypto. Fake money for criminals is not legitimate.

You are missing the gnu, if you’re calling it an OS.

Venezuela is being run by Rubio as a Banana Republic, except with oil. The president is talking openly about annexing us. Do the math.

To be fair, it is wartime.

I ain’t writing them off just yet.

jfc can we go back to spending our money on crypto please

Bonkers. Bonkers.

It’s important you know, especially if you are young, that you are currently immersed in a mental environment so toxic, that if you felt good most of the time it would indicate that something is wrong with you.

I know nothing about your life, so I really have little to offer, other than that: it is normal to feel terrible when the world is in the state that it is currently in. Many would say you have to get on with it, and they’re right on a certain level, but you can’t suppress reality 100% of the time.

If was really presuming to help you, we would have to talk a lot and kinda figure out the root of this self-disdain, cause there is something at the bottom of it, and spoiler, I AM 100% positive that someone else put it there, one way or another.