2026-07-15 20:38 UTC
@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club you didn't have to pay attention, even. he's said explicitly this since the very beginning. he chose the gpl out of a sense of technical fairness, not some larger alignment with free software principles.
so very many of the luminaries from back then were exactly the same way. they considered themselves above the fray. basically all of them are now llm boosters. it makes sense why they would be.
computing has always had a really nasty libertarian streak which pervades every aspect of it, and that, more than linus or esr or even knuth, is what brought this ill upon us.
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@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club 2026-07-15 21:26
@bjc@tines.spork.org Yep! He was very clear about his priorities. I'm not sure why anyone would think he had any inclination to be, or become a champion of free software or The Cause (whatever The Cause may be).
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@cancername@mas.to 2026-07-15 21:45
@bjc@tines.spork.org @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club imo this has redeemed the "free software" crowd over the "open source" crowd... and if we're lucky it might even be what makes the larger free software movement break with fsf