Shamar @Shamar@social.cleverlibre.org

@polychrome

You might like https://miasap.se/obnc/

@kaniini

@dpwiz

#SMTP for example.
#ICMP is another.
Even #FTP still rocks (in private networks or over a VPN).

#HTTP 1.0 was pretty good to distribute #HyperTexts. Turned to shit as #WHATWG decided to transform the Web into a distributed (and highly insecure) operating system.

@Wolf480pl@niu.moe @technomancy

@jump_spider @henriquesga

If we had to declare a winner to a cultural war, it would be #US #Capitalism: no matter how many criticisms it faces, it can always embrace, marginalize and extinguish them.

And yes, most powerful corporations and agents out there want we to think #OpenSource (which is a #marketing tool, thus a #capitalist one) has won.

But if we are able to see the "cultural war" we should see how it's a never-ending one.

To me, a more appropriate wording would have been "#hackers' software", since the core value that actually drive #FreeSoftware development is #Curiosity: #freedom is fundamental, but ancillary.

#RMS couldn't see this because he was born in the #USA where (and when) the #Free #Market was the main driver of their internal narrative.

But freedom is not enough: you need #communion (#commons, #community...) so that we are bound together by mutual rules in the way we use the commons.

As the fight between #FreeMarket and #Communism has shown in the 1900, we need something else to balance these two fundamental values.

And such thing is Curiosity, the will to learn and to share knowledge so that others can learn more and teach us.

On this topics I'd have a lot more things to say. If you are interested see

http://www.tesio.it/2019/06/03/what-is-informatics.html

http://www.tesio.it/2018/10/11/math-science-and-technology.html

http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt

http://www.tesio.it/documents/vademecum.txt

@jump_spider

As for the "stigma" of the "free" world, tbh I've always thought it's just bullshit.

Recently I realized that it's just an #US and #corporate issue (because current #capitalism is itself a US thing, despite being an evolution of a way more ancient system).

Having said that, obviously to people who can't code #FreeSoftware is totally equivalent to #proprietary one except for the price.

There is no #freedom to study, modify and distribute modified versions for them.

This is something that we should fix, by teaching everybody how to #program and #debug.

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As for #WorkerOwnedCollectives, do you have any link to share? Sound interesting, but I know nothing about them.

@jamey

What about white dragon?

You are lucky, actually.

To me, most people are less poetic.

Easy prediction: people who have been taught to confuse #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource through the misleading terms #FOSS and #FLOSS will now be led to further accept the privatization of #knowledge by small, innovative (and easy to acquire) #ethical start-ups.

@freemo

Sound reasonable, actually.

Fine.
So let's do this way: give me 2 million dollars so that I can trust you that you will actually trust me and not just pretend to.

Then I'll buy you trust for the 1 million dollars you asked.

Ok deal? 🤣

@Tutanota

Nice!

I know it might look as a risky move from a business perspective.

But once you'll release your server side code, people will have a very good reasons to trust you as a secure service provider: your customers' trust will be your only competitive advantage.

As for me, I'm already trying your free tier, and so far seems pretty good.

But before switching my other domains I'd like to be sure I could self-host the service if should anything go wrong.

@Libertux@liberdon.com

@freemo 🤣

That's the point, though.

You can't buy #trust.

We are going towards a world where people #trust will be much more valuable than #wealth.