• 2 Posts
  • 109 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 27th, 2023

help-circle
  • It’s more nuanced than that. I would characterize a significant portion of FLOSS philosophy and participants as “libertarianism” (in the US politics sense).

    On LGBTQ issues, they seem to be compatible with “gay and communism”, but a litmus test would be whether a member would support the use of FLOSS for

    1. Large companies’ profits (e.g. AWS)
    2. Military suppliers (e.g. Palantir, Anduril)

    Interpreting the licences in their literal text would mean that the above are not only allowed, but in fact part of the “liberty” the license aims to protect.

    The tragedy is that lots of “gay and communism” participants will find themselves betrayed by the libertarian elements once an actual choice appears in reality, such as when people try to “patch” the movement with Code of Conduct.

    The problem, in my opinion, roots in the tendencies of the founding members towards “tech neutrality”. This is turn is a result of the US hippie movement’s ideology of “no ideology”.













  • The AP source title is: Trump’s commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs coming

    The part that’s been denied is that the exclusion is permanent. Since Friday, electronics from China would be subject to 20% of the fentanyl tariff and nothing more. It will be this way until Trump invents another tariff just for electronics. I believe this is what most commentators expected back in Friday, but there must be talks of capitulation and Trump couldn’t stand to lose face.