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> society rewards extroverts as leaders It's even worse: some societies reward quick thinking and shun deep thinking. Mostly the English-speaking societies, people can even become …

> GPL is cynical at best, hypocritical at worst It's not different from soldiers taking weapons from the enemy they are fighting. A pretty common tactic. Fighting fire with fire. W…

> There's a lot of software that I would like to use in my day job that I can't touch because it's GPL. This is by design. Good: the license is working as intended. > I have no sym…

> However, I'm under no illusion that it'll prevent my unpaid work from being used by billionaires. There's plenty of evidence that AGPL is reasonably effective at that. SaaS provi…

> far more abstract principle of the home PC user being able to recompile their own software stack from source. I contributed hundreds of hours of work into libraries. They are use…

Reminder: github star history is in no way a measure of quality.

Let me remind you that revolutions happened throughout history. After thousand of years of cynics saying "nothing changed", one day, a tipping point is reached.

> Nobody cares. Repeating this mantra all the time is not helpful. People have been told that modern computing and privacy cannot coexist. That all software companies spy on them a…