luna

Yes. I’m strongly in favor of noncommercial clauses in licenses. Because fuck capitalism.

It’s easy, just find some folks to unconditionally fulfill every need of yours without any expectation of anything in return, and live your entire life in that circumstance so you don’t know stress

The fact that so many people so firmly believe that MS is one of the good guys now is just bewildering to me. Like were they not alive in the 90s? This is classic embrace, extend, extinguish, as you say.

The only thing Microsoft is investing in is marketing to fool people into thinking they’re your friend. Remember that Copilot is automated open source license violation at scale. They’re building a tool to take your work, without crediting you, so others can use it without compensating you.

This is “love” in the same way an abusive relationship is “love”.

Insofar as “FOSS” is a specific, delineated, reified thing you can point to and describe, it doesn’t reject profit and capitalism when devs use licenses that enable corporations to use their work for free. That’s enablement, not rejection.

Yes I would, because then it’s easier to shoot him in the head.

Steve Ballmer also throws chairs at employees.

Go on…?

Another perspective on the books point: Where do you think all that information on the internet (in the beginning) came from? There wasn’t a wikipedia, there wasn’t a google. That information came from books. And experts who didn’t need to reference books… because they wrote the books everyone else referenced.

I don’t know if the linked paper is serious or shitpost and I’m so amused to think it may be both

disroot.org is also free and a European (so your data actually has protections) nonprofit

That’s when I pop open the developer console and write some code to automate clicking them all out of spite

Just because you’ve never been told no (n = 1) it doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed success. Authors aren’t obligated to do as you ask.

Honestly, I’m more annoyed by the incessant Christmas music for the entire month of December (… which I’ve also heard as early as the day after sodding Halloween). I thankfully live in a part of the US where the “We can’t say merry Christmas!” squawking is pretty rare.

This is the only correct way to respond to stalebot. The only correct way to respond to a stupid rule is by trolling it.