Chris
@clacke @deavmi  https://gnusocial.de/attachment/3338949   I made the mistake of letting that quip about hosting get out to twitter. Now I have someone trying to get me to use their product. Today I get to explain what free software is and how bullshit "fair source" (an abomination I learned about yesterday) makes your product defective. Happy Thursday to me!
Dec 8, 2016 at 4:05pmWeb
Show threadClaes Wallin (韋嘉誠)Dec 8, 2016
@csaurus Sounds like Monty Widenius's "Business Source" nonsense from a few years back:

http://qttr.at/1lg6 #businesssource #fairsource
Show threadChrisDec 8, 2016
@clacke I thought that all sounded familiar. You're right. I was disappointed in Widenius since he positioned himself as a free software advocate after forking into Mariadb, but then business source. Fair source seems to be way more about marketing than anything. Like, how do you define an organization to know how many get to view the source? How do we even know the source code provided is actually the program which gets distributed in binary form?

I'm just sick of seeing Silicon Valley continuously put out crap products whose only purpose is to exploit the ignorance of people who don't have (and shouldn't need) the technical aptitude to evaluate them.
Show threadTristan B. KildaireDec 9, 2016
@csaurus that image is excellent
Show threadChrisDec 9, 2016
@deavmi Thanks, I saw it and knew I had to keep it. You might also like this one. https://gnusocial.de/attachment/2981831
Show threadTristan B. KildaireDec 9, 2016
@csaurus my word