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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by trevyn on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:13PM (#29002233)
Giving up on expecting copyleft licenses to be enforceable seems reasonable.

Open source wins by overwhelming closed-source advocates with quality code that moves too fast for them to keep up by maintaining their own private codebases or private forks, giving practical incentives to participate in the broader ecosystem.

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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by rvense on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:29PM (#29002434)
> Giving up on expecting copyleft licenses to be enforceable seems reasonable.

No, it seems horrible. We need more free software, not less.

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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by spywaregorilla on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:44PM (#29002683)
Seems to me the parent is suggesting the same amount of open source code but less copyleft.
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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by rbanffy on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:25PM (#29007711)
Leftophobia is a terrible affliction. I wonder if the "left" in "Copyleft" is what turns so many people off...
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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by spywaregorilla on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @08:21AM (#29012244)
not a real thing
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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by fluidcruft on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:34PM (#29002513)
There's no "we" here. If you don't like copyleft code, then don't use it and write your own. It's pretty simple.
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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by trevyn on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:42PM (#29002658)
Fixed, thanks.
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Re:Trump Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public... by lolinder on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:45PM (#29002700)
So open source wins by writing code whose internal APIs change so rapidly that corporate forks maintained by full-time employees can't keep up, while somehow not confusing the heck out of the part-time open-source contributors. That... doesn't sound possible.
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