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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • i will never understand what people hope to accomplish with these licenses, when even the fucking GPL isn’t particularly reliable.

    a license is only useful if it can actually be enforced and people are willing to interact with it, if a license isn’t robustly worded and thought out or it’s simply not backed by a trusted group, it’s basically entirely pointless.

    I maintain that the GPL is the best license purely because it has the FSF behind it and it has been used since time immemorial, it’s one of few open source licenses that has seen repeated stress testing in courts and stood up to it.



  • and what happens when they leave school? what will they have learned?

    it’s just the same nonsense as keeping candy to the weekends: rather than building a healthy relationship to the thing, you restrict it and alienate people from it, so when they do have access to it they gorge while they can.

    How about instead of that; we actually talk to kids about how it can affect them negatively, how it benefits them, how the negatives can be minimized and the positives maximized, and to voluntarily not use it when they shouldn’t?