this post argues that stallman is not the "root" cause of bad things, and that he is being publicly "whipped" and "cancelled" with analogy to when marginalized people are ganged up on, and that he should be made "irrelevant".

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@FinalOverdrive @sidereal @foolishowl not that i'm aware of and that's a good question

[finaloverdrive@kolektiva.social]

@hipsterelectron @sidereal @foolishowl it may turn out you're worrying over nothing with the GPL. The disclosure requirements themselves may render GPL code Kryptonite for the military industrial complex. Now the permissive MIT license...that may be more cause for concern.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@FinalOverdrive @sidereal @foolishowl i use the GPL to protect my own labor for vaguely similar reasons even though it encodes no labor protections. i'm worried however especially with the discussion of "open source" "AI" that we may find corporate use of A?GPL code in e.g. a missile where (like nvidia's "open source" driver) the hardware/firmware remains a secret

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@FinalOverdrive @sidereal @foolishowl i grant that it is extremely difficult to codify this in license clauses though and this is why i consider the ACSL very difficult to enforce and why instead of looking for legal advice at this stage i was looking precisely to your earlier suggestion of aligning with labor movements

[finaloverdrive@kolektiva.social]

@hipsterelectron @sidereal @foolishowl Basically I see the "don't make me code for missiles" as a union demand. So put together a programmers union and make that a key demand

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] no surprise that tech companies seem to love hunting down and firing anyone who signs anything deriding military contracts. It doubt it falls under the narrow auspices of labor organising (although it really should; mind you, these companies union bust all the fucking time, so I’m not sure it would matter anyway), but is in effect a demand by an organised group of laborers about how their output is used and I’m sure the companies view it that way.