It’s weird because I remember Reddit implementing that maybe ten years ago. If someone can confirm.

A few years ago, Baby On Board meant “my children are in the back seat and they are pissing me off, I can’t drive, be careful if you follow me.” It seems that it has changed for some reason.

That’s defamation. French people are very peaceful, and those cars have a tendency to light themselves on fire.

Why don’t you, I mean, I know it’s gonna be hard for you but, eat food from other countries or local food?

It reminds me of the 80s Wonder Woman movie: visually perfect. And a grand total of 2 minutes of fights in the whole movie.

I’ve seen this way too many time: “OSS is great but it’s bad and I don’t say why in the whole article.”

On Mastodon:

how to defend those commons against appropriation:

Either create a new license like “GPL except you can’t sell it” but you’ll need lawyers, and it gives too much restriction.

the GPL also is very binary in how it operates and does not allow you any nuance. It’s very much a libertarian-influenced document

What nuance do you need? Either you share as required or not, there is no debate. As for the libertarian BS…

So why have we not “won”?

Again, the winning part is not undefined. Do you want money? That’s not the point of most of those free licenses.

Firefox – the Open Source browser […] has a market share of 2.63%.

That’s because Mozilla is a corrupt organization that doesn’t care about Firefox, and because Google made its browser the default on most phones, but I don’t think it’s relevant.

Linux has a desktop market share of about 4%.

Because users are brainwashed by Microsoft and will never change unless it’s presented in a pretty package from Apple.

We are not meeting people where they are. We expect them to come to us

I don’t expect them to come and wouldn’t want yet another eternal September with AI slop replacing everything. But if you want to do something, do it.

understand why our values matter and are the best. Which – sorry to have to say so – they are not.

Again, free attack without explaining why.

Because what we are selling isn’t a solution to people’s actual problems but a new identity

Fuck, that’s confusing. Open-source software is about creating technical solutions to technical problems with an OSS license. As long as we’re drifting away from this simple definition, we’ll go deeper and deeper into sociological issues that do not concern us (maybe call yourself a life-hacker or socio-hacker) and that we’ll never fix because a lot of us are either introverted or unconcerned about the whole thing.

Freedom 0 […] And where has that got us? Are we happy here?

Yep, I’m pretty happy. But I’m also pretty pissed that, at this point of the text, the writer still hasn’t clearly defined his problems with software, OSS, society… A simple definition would help him toward a first fix.

We need to reshape our thinking towards more political goals and values

God no. But I’m not preventing you to do this.

It should not terrify you. I also see retired people who become bored, but when you understand things a little, they always had a boring life with no hobbies and where the work was filling everything else. Without work they have no life.

level and fair playing field

Hahahaha. Anyway is that the job of the FCC at all?

If that’s the limit of your knowledge, I can’t help you. Read more on the subject maybe.

You have no issue with a company trying to illegally prevent people doing something legal?

Is it only for emulation? Stopping emulation is the illegal part.

lol no it doesn’t. stop making shit up.

They literally restrict the usage of Firefox by applying their policies. It’s written.

We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible

Why are they doing stuff on my behalf instead of relying on the programming language that already does everything. That’s another lie of course. Mozilla does nothing but they pretend they do in order to get more data and credentials.

Mozilla should have no fucking role when someone uses Firefox.

And stop with the Sync crap, it has already been dealt with when the user subscribed to the service.

If you dont understand why people are pissed that a company demands any kind of overreaching control that has never existed so far, you must be working for Mozilla but it’s not very convincing.

All these terms are about the source code and the one who receives it or not.

The equivalent would be the MPL for Firefox, which, guess what, does not prevent the user from doing anything with the source code.

Now let’s go back to talking about the ToS shit because you’re confused, talking about software license which is irrelevant here.

I don’t need to read legal stuff because we don’t need a ToS: I don’t need one, Firefox doesn’t need one, Mozilla doesn’t need one for Firefox. So, why?

Mozilla was just rewording the ToS

No, because it’s the first time they added a useless ToS to Firefox. The ToS is not changing, and that’s the main worry, it is being created.

• There was no ToS before, for 20 year and maybe more.
• They don’t need a ToS for Firefox only.
• Its existence violates the first freedom of open-source applications: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (aka “freedom 0”).
• They refuse to explain why they need one despite developers knowing fully well that it is not needed unless you’re trying to do bad stuff.

Yes, something bad has changed. The whole organization was a mess but it never changed or involved Firefox. It has now and they pretend that we are too stupid or confused to understand what is happening.

If you want to stop using FF then stop

That’s what I’m doing because it never was that bad. I already trusted Mozilla as much as I trusted Google, but it was fine since it never involved Firefox. I wish them good luck with their ads and AI experiments.

They don’t think about freedom around me. Most idiots I know are have a fetish for a dictatorship because they think they’ll keep on living their redneck dream while getting pretty SS suits when the master takes all the power.

Call me when they remove it.

Mozilla [is] asking for user data in order to operate Firefox

I’m confused. Isn’t Firefox an autonomous application? Like it could be “programmed” to do stuff without asking Mozilla every time? Why am I not operating Firefox, why is it Mozilla?

J’ai laissé tomber. J’ai créé l’identité machin en allant valider ma carte dans un bureau de poste. Tout va bien.

Ensuite on se rend compte que ça fait la même chose que les impôts pour se logger, pourquoi l’un plus que l’autre ?

Enfin la poste ce sont des sites web merdiques qui crashent sur certains navigateurs si tu as trop de restriction. J’ai désactivé tout ce que je voulais sur Firefox: rien. Et sur mon nouveau Linux c’est pire, plus rien ne marche quelque soit le navigateur.

J’ai laissé tomber le truc et je suis revenu à mon bon vieux numéro fiscal. Au moins je suis certain que le site des impôts sera toujours là pour récupérer mon argent même après une guerre nucléaire.

En lisant la plainte du monsieur je me souviens pourquoi j’ai toujours détesté la poste : ouvert en semaine de 15:00 à 16:00 alors que tu bosses, ouvert le samedi matin de 8:40 à 8:45 sauf qu’il y a un papier collé sur la porte disant « lol on est fermé désolé », à une époque les colis étaient ouverts par les facteurs et recollés avec un scotch officiel la poste pour cacher le trou (un ami m’a expliqué que les fautifs ont été virés).

Pas étonnant qu’on ait une invasion de boîtes au lettres Relai Colis ou autre. Et c’est disponible 24h/24.

I’ve been boycotting Starbucks for 10 years because it’s shit coffee, and McDonalds for 30 years because it’s shit food.

What kind of stack are you thinking of?

People decided it was a new N-word because it was a medical term a few centuries ago. I don’t understand it either.