CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]

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  • There is a “Commons Clause” that people can add but there is some controversy as to whether adding this clause is enforceable. It very much would violate the strict definition of “FOSS”.

    That said, I very much am against corporations that make full use of FOSS without contributing anything meaningful in return. I personally believe companies that make over $1M in revenue should absolutely donate something to the FOSS products they use.

    Not only that but developers need to stop using permissive licenses like MIT or CC0. Moving to something like GPL3 (and specifically version 3) would go a long way for companies to stop treating open source as a well they can exploit.




  • Tribalism has been with the human race since we’ve had literal tribes. Not being racist, in comparison, is relatively new.

    Not trying to justify racism but pointing out that the reason why decent people aren’t racists is because we learned that basing hatred on intrinsic qualities in a person is stupid and we should cooperate instead of oppress.

    But there are people who just want to oppress.


  • Nations can’t ignore the fact that the US has one of the most active militaries in the world. Our Navy is more of less second to none and we have nukes. In the hands of a normal president, we might be fine but you sure as heck know that Trump and his Project 2025 people are just itching to launch one.

    This is a situation where there are no good options. The best you can do is continue political pressure, get other nations to rally behind you in the hopes of creating a strong economic resistance.

    But the real answer is that we, the US citizens, need to fucking take this country back. I hate to say it but protests simply aren’t enough anymore.


  • I think people like rationalizing their behaviors so that they don’t seem weird. When really they are just being themselves.

    Behaviors become mental illnesses when they start to affect other parts of your life. Organizing your books by color is unusual and quirky, but not a mental illness.

    If you can’t leave a library because you have to organize their books by color, then it’s a mental illness.



  • Reverse engineering prohibitions are the dumbest things.

    Let’s say I do this. Arduino sues me. Okay. Now what? What money are they going to take?

    Hell, this would be a perfect time for everyone to form an LLC and purchase Arduinos as the LLC and then release your research under your corporate name as CC0. If your LLC has no revenue, you as an individual are legally protected.

    Arduino can try to put the genie back in the bottle but good luck.

    Better companies than Arduino have tried to prevent hardware reverse engineering and have failed. Apple being the biggest company I can think of that have tried to sue people for releasing schematics of their motherboards.