@bloor @flangey @vfrmedia @emf granted, all #tech is #political and that goes for #SurveillanceTech like #ring and #flock just as much as for #DIY & #FLOSH like #MNTreform and #tiny486.

https://github.com/OS-1337/tiny486

But yes, there needs to be more #OpenSourceHardware-#Events...

@conservancy @bkuhn

Looking forward to things greater and stronger than the AGPL! ❤️

#foss #floss #fosh #flosh #copyleft #commons #freesoftware

@lajuste @fluffery @maumau @BryanGreyson @fairphone personally, I wished @GrapheneOS would support some #RISCv board becaise then they could do #FLOSS & #FLOSH thus.combining #transparency with #security.

• Sadly this takes way more than just change the target arch before compiling!

@arclight I mean, I'd love to see someone pay me to maintain @OS1337 full-time (or any other of my #FLOSS / #FLOSH projects), but until then I'll sadly have to do whatever #WageWork keeps me and mutuals afloat.

• After all, being a "good person" doesn't make rent or pay utilities. Otherwise I'd still be a volunteer firefighter at the local platoon...

@seeingwithsound

Copyleft is a legal trick based on copyright laws that instead of restricting everyone from using a piece of software, it guarantees the rights of everyone to use a piece of software. The GPL (Gnu Public License) is the canonical copyleft license, and it is well described on the Gnu website here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html

The Linux kernel and GNU operating system are examples of software under the GPL.

F.O.S.S. stands for Free Open Source Software. FOSS is a sort of movement in the collaborative, communal software world where the public works together on mostly copyleft software to solve large and important software engineering problems.

The trend of FOSS is now getting into the collaborative, communal space of hardware engineering, where you're starting to see Free and Open Source Hardware or FOSH appearing more often. Hardware design licenses are still pretty new and many people simply use GPL or CERN has a good hardware license.

That's a lot of complicated legal licensing tricks that can be basically summarized as: "Let's share our designs and work together on technical solutions to large, complicated, important problems."

I was just wondering if you had any opinions on these movements in the software or hardware product design spaces.

#foss #floss #fosh #flosh