On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
    • J Lou
      4•6 months ago

      Why not use a license that prevents capitalist firms from even using the software?

      @linux

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        8•6 months ago

        Non commercial licenses aren’t considered FOSS licenses.

        • J Lou
          7•6 months ago

          Such a license would allow commercial use by worker cooperatives. I understand that software freedom as it has been defined excludes such licenses, but I would argue that this position is wrong. There is nothing unfree about preventing firms based on workplace autocracy from exploiting the commons and the workers that work on the commons and the workers in their own firms @linux

  • @[email protected]English
    22•6 months ago

    This is a good, short read. For those who are unfamiliar with the AGPL license that the author proposes we all start using, the main difference (and I am not a lawyer) is that under the AGPL, the source code including any modifications must also be made available to all users interacting with the software over a network. This prevents companies from making proprietary versions of AGPL software that are only accessible as a web service, which is one of the big ways that corporations are able to profit from GPL source code contributions these days.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•6 months ago

    I started using GitHub before Microsoft bought it, what should I be using instead? GitLab? Codeberg? Something else?

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      8•6 months ago

      I think Codeberg is totally open as opposed to GitLab which has an open core and paid enterprise version. There’s also SourceHut but you have to pay to use it (no free tier). As far as I know there aren’t any public Forgejo instances. (Codeberg is Forgejo)

      I think any of these are better than GitHub (I say as I still use GitHub).

  • @nikaaa
    4•6 months ago

    Very interesting read.

    I also like how, at the end, it changed perspective to say “actually, our problem is not software, but politics”.

    We must be aware of what agents we encourage and discourage through our actions.