Chris (moving to jade.moe)
DIRB@brainblasted @tom79 @starwall "GNOME Developer"
DO YOU EVEN FREE SOFTWARE
"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
@dirb @starwall @tom79 yeah I free software. That said, I can make decisions people don’t like with my software, and people can fork it if they don’t like it. I don’t need to add anything to my license to block gab from using it. Just like Mozilla can un-trust certificates, I can un-trust instances.
@brainblasted Yes, that would be technically valid, but I still would be against the spirit of free software and not many people have the knowledge of how to build an android app by themselves. Also imagine the uproar would happen if Mozilla (or Chrome) invalided valid certificates for non-technical issues
@dirb preserving the spirit of free software matters less to me than giving people that want me dead a platform. Full stop.
@brainblasted And what's your base to say gab people want you dead?
@dirb I’m black. Gab is a home for white supremacists. Dead or enslaved, they want to negate my agency and my ability to live equally within society.
@brainblasted one question, have you seen post like that on gab by yourself?
rugk OLD ACCOUNT@brainblasted @dirb Also i have to disagree: Blocking would be totally fine with FLOSS.
I mean, you get FLOSS as FLOSS. You can use it as it is, you can change it and remove the block.
But you have no right to ask the author to do something for you or remove the block. You get the software, and you can use it.
What the software does, is the software's thing/authors responsibility. It can do whatever it wants, you can still use it.
So as long as the license is FLOSS, it's FLOSS. Period. Rly.