was about to warn someone about a problem on their website, then i saw they were on M$ 'grift'hub

fk'em.... not gonna help M$ continue their #softwareTheft

#grifthub

Upgrade to #GPLv4?

Nothing wrong with #GPLv3, but I feel it does need to be updated to specifically make it unlawful to put the code on any repository owned or operated by an entity that is engaging in software theft (eg. Micros(ha)ft servers). That means no code on git-hub(dot) com.... includes forks and mirrors obviously.

Microsoft supports #softwareTheft via their so-called "ai".

(NOTE: The new license wouldn't need to add anything about "AI" because the existing license is clear, but it probably should explicitly name micros(ha)ft as barred for the sake of clarity.)

@rms @fsf @jeffcliff @silverpill @r

MINI RANT TIME.... #openSource is the hashtag to use when bending over and want to serve the #corporateState.... it could probably be labelled, #openWide or #openSeason, take ur pick.

#FOSS is the hashtag to use when you care about #freedom. Some other good ones are #Libre and #copyleft

#github is the microshaft platform to use when u want OpenSeason on ur software. If yuo do FOSS on #griftHub ur work will be stolen by #microshaft and handed over to the corporates, using the excuse, "the 'AI' stole it".

If u are using GriftHub, u are part of the problem, either due to ur #ignorance, or malevolence. This includes the #bitcoin ppl.

Gitlab is also quite nasty as it requires javascript to browse a repository, and its official service (gitlab.com) is via cloudflare, Avoid using for anything other than backup/#collateralFreedom.

Please look in #forgejo and #forgeFed and other types of forges /END RANT

#getOffGithub #github #softwareTheft #llms #forges #git

@ChrisMayLA6 Interestingly a duo of authors, both with the same family name, #Rothchild, claim that #copilot is fairuse: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications-of-the-use-of-code-repositories-to-train-a-machine-learning-model

I'm fascinated, by the lengths they go to to absolve #microsoft, like this beauty, "detecting (verbatim) copying from such a vast training set is algorithmically quite difficult".

Poor microsoft, they can build a #LLM to give plausible deniability to software thieves but doing some verbatim searches is just too much for the poor darling.

#softwareTheft

Copyright Implications of the Use of Code Repositories to Train a Machine Learning Model — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

@mjg59 @jenniferplusplus @blogdiva
Do not #Copyleft licences, like #GPLv3, work by ensuring that **any** software that includes the FOSS code be #FOSS also?

What the above describes is #softwareTheft, right?

For example #MastodonDevs by allowing #HellaDoge to not provide source code for years, with a notification of such by us, are allowing software #theft, right?

#AGPLv3Compliance

@sl007
Sebastian has a good point here, @fsf, please use inclusive language, like Fediverse.

On the topic of #Mastodon however we would like someone to address the fact that Mastodon folk appear to be actively ignoring repeated calls for "#memecoin" operation (#helladoge.com) to be served a compliance notice for their #softwareTheft of the AGPLv3 code.

That site is a bad violator of the licence and should be taken down immediately or made to comply.

@Gargron's inaction is deafening.

@realcaseyrollins
Its even worse, reports are saying the #TruthSocial will be using #Mastodon code without being #openSource as the #AGPLv3 dictates it must!

This is #softwareTheft, and if this happens will highlight how rotten to its core, the #USA really is.

#plutocracy #digitalColonialism #neocolonialism #invasion

@aerkiaga
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The only large scale media outlet that published Trump's #Mastodon #softwareTheft was #MSN/#MSNBC.

(Btw, it's nice for us to find today that #YahooNews reported it, too. As a #mediaOutlet, they seem to be improving, having reported the #assasinationPlot against #Assange recently also.)

The theft highlights a grave #hypocrisy and should be widely known. Its incumbent on us to get the world out — to "be the media, we want to see in the world".

:)

#OpenMediaNetwork #OMN

@aerkiaga
Thanks for asking.

You'll find extra info at a few bespoke tech news sites, iwrc theVerge reported it, and a couple others.

Almost no mainstream media outlets reported that the former President stole code. Not even #ABCNews (#Australian), nor #TheGuardian, who love to dish the dirt on Trump. Almost no legacyMedia outlet bothered to reported the #softwareTheft despite giving freeAdvertising to #TruthSocial the previous day.

Searx for: "mastodon" "truth social"

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Please remember that when Trump was caught stealing #Fediverse software, the #legacyMedia said he was attacked by hackers.

They made #Trump the f&cking victim!

Please keep this at the forefront of your mind. A sign on the fridge to remind you how great our plight is.

Draw signs with permanent marker on corflute to advertise #Fediverse, #GNULinux, and other #freedomSoftware you love. Attach them to your vehicle whereever you park it.

Time to rise.

#softwareTheft #copyleft #timeToRise