Yesterday, there was a live scheduled by Louis Grossman, titled “Addressing futo license drama! Let’s see if I get fired…”. I was unable to watch it live, but now the stream seems to be gone from YouTube.
Did it air and was later removed? Or did it never happen in the first place?
Here’s the link to where it was meant to happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBYMobWQzk
Cheers
Edit: a new video was recently posted at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjy2CHP7zU
I do not know if this was the supposedly edited and reuploaded video or if this is unrelated.
Frankly, I doubt he said anything worth listening to.
I watched it and I thought it was alright. I have no context for anything outside the video but what he said seems to make sense. Idk anything about FUTO other than they are at least source available for their apps which is enough to be able to inspect their claims about privacy and security.
My take on non-profit source available licenses (I know nothing just stream of thought):
I am I’m favor of an “open” source license minus profiting off of your forks, which I understand makes the resulting license not open source. In a capitalist system, the capitalist class will take every opportunity to parasitically take where ever possible. Nothing free in a capitalist system, including living. Free development comes at a cost, even iif made purely out of passion.
Most of the code I will ever publish will be open source, with the exception of some big and very unique passion projects that I wish to stay nonprofit. Any person who forks it owns their code, but is limited to donations (just in the same way I’d adhere to the license). Source available at least means people can inspect it for badware, which is good for privacy and security. Allowing forking and community collaboration is important. But some greedy corporation stealing your code without contributing back is gross. In an ideal world we wouldn’t care about the perceived costs to our time by developing and releasing code for free because money would play no part in our ability to continue existing or as a way to measure our “worth”. Why freely enable thier behaviour just to maintain some pure ideological boundaries. They dont deserve to profit off of our labor and passion.
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I don’t get why people still believe they have to gatekeep the open source definition or how to prevent capitalists from exploiting free labour.
Life and circumstances aren’t static. They are constantly evolving. Just because capitalists treated open source as a threat, back when it was created, doesn’t mean they didn’t learn how to exploit it and those who work on it. They do now and it’s only natural to evolve and try to find a way to protect from such exploitation.
To stand still and point fingers at others trying to move forward is conservative, the exact opposite of progress.
Anti Commercial-AI license
I don’t know why he has so many followers. I think it is just because he says what people want to hear, but it doesn’t have any depth to it.
Nothing against him personally, I just think he’s annoying and also has some entrepreneur vibes that I hate. I am grateful for the right to repair activism, but the latest videos that I watched were just shallow complaining. Justified of course but… yeah.
The thing is, some need to publicly complain/call out shitty behaviour of our corporate masters. Now paired with someone who has quite the reach makes this even better so that unaware peeps notice this as well.