libre software
Jan. 29th, 2013 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vlion* I have become increasingly concerned about the software patent/IP problem in the US over the past few years.
* I also have increasingly become concerned about the removal of general purpose computing from the consumer.
* I also have become concerned about, for lack of a better word, the "corporatization-friendly-becomingness" of online culture and the rise of the BSD license in popularity.
I have personally been not terribly good at evangelizing things, although I've tried. I've decided to join the FSF, the progenitor of the GPL. I am now a member. (woo)
I also have personally committed to moving my public source code into, generally, GPL-mixable licenses. I profoundly believe the AGPLv3 is the *right* way to write general-purpose software for the world in general. Part of that is the FSF's "four freedoms". But for me, it's a simpler, more fundamental thing: we should all have the right to repair our stuff, or hire someone else to, at our discretion. We can fix our bikes. Why can't we fix our software?
So I wanted to say this on Dreamwidth, my preferred blogging platform, because its important to me. And I wanted to share this with others here, because it is important to me and might spark some conversation.
* I also have increasingly become concerned about the removal of general purpose computing from the consumer.
* I also have become concerned about, for lack of a better word, the "corporatization-friendly-becomingness" of online culture and the rise of the BSD license in popularity.
I have personally been not terribly good at evangelizing things, although I've tried. I've decided to join the FSF, the progenitor of the GPL. I am now a member. (woo)
I also have personally committed to moving my public source code into, generally, GPL-mixable licenses. I profoundly believe the AGPLv3 is the *right* way to write general-purpose software for the world in general. Part of that is the FSF's "four freedoms". But for me, it's a simpler, more fundamental thing: we should all have the right to repair our stuff, or hire someone else to, at our discretion. We can fix our bikes. Why can't we fix our software?
So I wanted to say this on Dreamwidth, my preferred blogging platform, because its important to me. And I wanted to share this with others here, because it is important to me and might spark some conversation.
