Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwlisp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@amszmidt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>amszmidt</span></a></span> </p><p>The beauty of <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/libre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libre</span></a> licensing, specifically the <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyleft</span></a> subset, is that the world doesn't have to depend on the behaviour of one company - others can fork the code. Examples of that happening abound. Not so with proprietary. I'm also not a fan of 'weak' <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/libre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libre</span></a> licenses, e.g. BSD & MIT, etc. And I revile software patents (see <a href="https://softwarepatents.org.nz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">softwarepatents.org.nz</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://emacs.social/@eduardoochs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eduardoochs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kentpitman</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@dougmerritt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dougmerritt</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span></p>