a lot of this resonates with me, but the nick bostrom ref takes me out of it, and honestly i have a hard time buying the idea that the best way to keep software open is a bunch of local openclaw installs
"Perhaps, back then, the problem was that FOSS communities lacked the political consciousness necessary to recognise their strategic position and to connect it to a broader context and a theory of economic warfare. Nowadays, we deal with the reverse problem — growing political awareness with little strategic application."
"[T]hat’s not cool. That’s an ad hominem, and very immature of you. What do you have against a mixture of dried carbohydrates and powdered seasonings?"
fedora stops accepting code licensed as CC0. the concern seems to be about the patent rights clauses, which may expose users of the code to patent litigation later on