Agree. But it’s “citizens” not civilians. “Civilians” are those that aren’t military. Civilians are virtually everybody, police included. The USA started this double-speak ~15 years ago, where they pretend that police are military, and police aren’t civilians. Please stop rewiring your brain by using their language.
“Rules for rulers” video from CGP Grey summarizes this nicely. The book it is based on should be mandatory reading.
If you dont want corpos to exploit it, you go with GPL. Then they are forced to share back.
That license looks like Creative Commons Non-Comercial, which is not an open source license.
Indeed. Looking forward to the new Valve headset, which is just a normal Arm pc with a linux distro, including a desktop mode. Given that they push for upstreaming, i have quite the hopes to just be able to install any linux arm distro in the future.
Software that respects your freedom is the way
don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.
True about those without video outputs. But in Linux, game specific patches are in Mesa and not in the graphics drivers for example.
The something fucky is that is just centralized public-private key pairs. There’s no need for centralizing that under corporations. Actually, you lose one of the big features of public key cryptography.
It’s just a power grab from corpos