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Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

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Post by mdp2021 »

dmos62 wrote: post #203
jlangenauer wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? The creators created the software, they can put any conditions they please on how others might use it. They're under no moral or legal obligation to allow people to use the fruits of their labors, except as they permit.

The creators are themselves fruit of the society. It's short-sighted to grant them the privilege to withhold their fruit.

Really obscure: be more clear.

The creators are not simply the outcome of a populated space but of its navigation, through orientation, implying the sought, the accepted and the refused. Their «fruit» is produced accordingly - and not just "owing to society", but also "in spite of it" - and represents an intention, which is conditional to the product itself.

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Post by coldacid »

MomoXenosaga wrote: post #198
s7r wrote: post #121

In terms of "antithetical values", the machine learning project ml5js.org actually did something about this. They bound their open-source license to a Code of Conduct¹, which forbids the use of their ML software for (1) discriminating against marginalized communities, (2) building tools that disingenuously manipulate public opinion, (3) building tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of peopl…

I wonder just how far people are willing to take their wokeism. So far neither the Pentagon nor CIA has had any problems recruiting scientists and software developers. With idealism I've discovered that words are rarely followed by action.

All the woke are doing are ensuring that all hell will break loose when the pendulum swings back.

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Post by aksss »

Brosper wrote: post #128

This is good for Mastodon who will be more recognisable after this event

any publicity is good I guess, but reading their spiel left me with a bad impression of their style. But whatever.. kind of hate all social media (in the fb, twitter, Parler, TS) sense of the term anyway, so probably predisposed to think little of a posturing platform company anyway.

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Post by kkjjkgjjgg »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #35

"On Oct 26, we sent a formal letter to Truth Social’s chief legal officer, requesting the source code to be made publicly available in compliance with the license. According to AGPLv3, after being notified by the copyright holder, Truth Social has 30 days to comply or the license may be permanently revoked."

So they would still have 25 days left to provide the source code? Why then make a fuss now?

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Post by long_time_gone »

boredumb wrote: post #231
JohnWhigham wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon violating open source agreements to host their own version of the product and squeeze the life out of the original company? Not a peep. People whose political opinions differ from my own use the software? This must be stopped at once .

The reaction of people towards political campaigns using facebook data to campaign for US president in 2012 vs 2016 is similarly amusing and migraine inducing.

False equivalencies give me migraines too!!

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Post by zelon88 »

chrisseaton wrote: post #193
veltas wrote: post #159

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Not just Stallman, it's incompatible with the OSI definition of open source.

> incompatible with the OSI definition of open source So what? Why does it matter what they think?

It doesn't. The OSI is basically a fancy landing page that tricks people into thinking open source has a front man. Everything about the OSI comes from a pedestrian perspective. Really nothing more than an informative blog.

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Post by andreilys »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #251
roenxi wrote: post #134

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If all software was licensed that way, 5-15 years would pass then suddenly there'd be a whole bunch of "Wow, Stallman was right again! We should have been using free software licenses!" style articles. Restricting software use to only people approved by the creators is a terrible idea. Society has to operate with some level of trust that even people we disagree with, using methods we don't approve of, have the potent…

Is it really a terrible idea to restrict your software from being used to control weaponry? To spread lies about science, like climate change denial or vaccine lies? To host child pornography sharing? These above scenarios amount to handing criminals and bad actors powerful technological tools which allow them to increase harms done to society. This is a software company's choice, there is no law that states a compan…

To spread lies about science, like climate change denial or vaccine lies?

Of course it’s only a lie when your in-group defines it as such.

I recall at the beginning of the pandemic the CDC and surgeon general saying “masks weren’t necessary” and that “the lab leak theory is a conspiracy”. Of course both proved to be Noble Lies put out by the institutions.

I know it’s comforting to think of the world in terms of good/evil and truth/lies, but unfortunately it’s a messy complicated world and things are not as clear cut as we’d like.

Re: Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

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Post by EdwardDiego »

h2odragon wrote: post #132
EdwardDiego wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vizio?

TV maker Vizio sued for GPL infringement https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/vizio_gpl_lawsuit/

Ohhh, I was thinking Visio, the drawing thing. Duh, thanks.
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