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Seeing big companies take advantage of BSD or MIT licensed projects without sharing their contributions will always pain me. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know Luke Smith is controversial, but this Blogpost of him is kinda funny and fits the topic:

Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To an extent I agree with this, but "Once upon a time, this guy licensed his code under BSD instead of GPL and basically it's his fault the Intel Management Engine exists" is definitely a step too far

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Tanenbaum is right, they obviously could've taken the time and money to write an OS themselves if they had to, but they didn't have to, because a BSD license cuck wrote it for them. Thanks a lot, sucker!

I have no issues with this point.

But what’s up with the CIA “a bunch of n****rs” image above that? WTF?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

holy fuck i didn't even notice the chin text on that glowing emoji

WTF

When i wrote my comment i typed "i know Luke Smith is a bigot" at first, but then toned it down to "controversial" because i haven't really watched or read a lot of him to know for sure. But that image basically confirmed what I thought I knew about him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

What the fuck.

This is your brain on racism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's in reference to one of the recurring themes that came up in the blogs and streams of Terry A. Davis, sole developer of TempleOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was half hoping for something like that. I like to believe bigots are a lot less common than their loudness would suggest.

Still terribly problematic and such a niche, ephemeral, reference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wouldn't either had he stopped there (and perhaps been a shade less overtly hostile to someone giving their work away for free). Instead he followed it up with

"Maximum amount of freedom to potential users" is somehow mass-surveilance of every computer user thanks to the BSD license. Thanks for your contribution to "freedom."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No problems with that either. Tanembaum did unwittingly contribute to the biggest mass surveillance program ever rolled out worldwide, and all he had to say about it was “they didn’t thank me”. That asshole deserves all the criticism that lands on his feet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

yeaah true