Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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Concentrate Juice said:
Code: 
Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

Permission is granted, no charge, to any hoodlum, player, or
straight-up G that snags a copy of this fire-ass software and
the paperwork that rolls with it (the “Software”), to do
whatever you want with the Software, no holds barred, like
using, copying, tweaking, blending, putting it out there,
passing it around, slanging sublicenses, and/or flipping
copies of the Software, and letting your homies do the same,
long as they keep it real with these rules:

You gotta keep the copyright shout-out up top and this
permission slip in all versions or big pieces of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE COMES "AS IS", NO GUARANTEES, NONE, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROMISES IT'S GOOD
ENOUGH TO HUSTLE WITH, IT'S RIGHT FOR ANY PARTICULAR GRIND,
OR IT WON'T INFRINGE ON NO ONE'S TURF. NO WAY IN HELL WILL
THE AUTHORS OR THAT NIGGA HOLDING THE COPYRIGHT BE LIABLE FOR
ANY CLAIM, DAMAGE, OR OTHER BULLSHIT, WHETHER IT'S A CONTRACT
BEEF, A LEGAL CLASH, OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF SHIT, COMING FROM,
OUT OF, OR ANY WAY TIED TO THE SOFTWARE OR HOW IT'S USED OR
ANY OTHER SHIT YOU DO WITH IT.
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Will use this in my next github thing.
(it's gonna be a graphical fstab editor)
 
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Agent Sandoval said:
Because proprietary programs would never add malicious features or loudly broadcast how much they love tranny dick. I agree it's a waste of time to root these kinds of things out of a codebase and you're better off with alternatives, but don't pretend enshitification is somehow unique to FOSS.
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I already am aware that this "enshittification" isn't unique to FOSS, but you can't ignore the fact that this problem is much worse within that space since it is dominated by left leaning autists since forever.
 
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Average K-On Fan said:
I already am aware that this "enshittification" isn't unique to FOSS, but you can't ignore the fact that this problem is much worse within that space since it is dominated by left leaning autists since forever.
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Personally, I think its worse when its products I pay for. For example, I expect an inconsistent UI experience in 'nix because I understand its a bunch of shit written by a million different people working together. I had no questions because I knew what to expect.

When I bought a computer with Windows 10, after sticking to 7 for a long time, I had many questions about why the UI experience and common system control were flung about with careless abandon, because I've paid for it, paid for previous iterations of it, skipping every other. (as is tradition, every other release is dogshit, explained by what I've seen called "the Windows equation": 3.1>95<98>Me<2000</>*XP>Vista<7>8<10, close enough, I don't remember exactly how it goes) Things that used to be a few clicks away and intuitive to find are now sometimes many clicks away in the damnedest places.

It was made by one company, and previously was much more fluid and intuitive. Now, using the product is becoming more difficult, which isn't something I'm happy to pay for. I don't pay money for any FOSS, so I don't have as much skin in the game. If my money is in the game, my concern is greater.

*debatable exception
 
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JustSomeDong said:
Personally, I think its worse when its products I pay for. For example, I expect an inconsistent UI experience in 'nix because I understand its a bunch of shit written by a million different people working together. I had no questions because I knew what to expect.
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JustSomeDong said:
It was made by one company, and previously was much more fluid and intuitive. Now, using the product is becoming more difficult, which isn't something I'm happy to pay for. I don't pay money for any FOSS, so I don't have as much skin in the game. If my money is in the game, my concern is greater.
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One company, many competing divisions. It was not the product of one mind with one plan. Indeed, there are many people well motivated to upend well-established features and aspects of any given programming system in order to put their mark on it. Windows is no exception to this, and neither is Linux for that matter.
JustSomeDong said:
When I bought a computer with Windows 10, after sticking to 7 for a long time, I had many questions about why the UI experience and common system control were flung about with careless abandon, because I've paid for it, paid for previous iterations of it, skipping every other. (as is tradition, every other release is dogshit, explained by what I've seen called "the Windows equation": 3.1>95<98>Me<2000</>*XP>Vista<7>8<10, close enough, I don't remember exactly how it goes) Things that used to be a few clicks away and intuitive to find are now sometimes many clicks away in the damnedest places.
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Windows 7 was the last time I felt Windows was actually usable. Linux has become usable enough that I don't feel like dealing with Windows faggotry. Now I deal with Linux faggotry, which is just as bad, but different.
 
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JustSomeDong said:
Personally, I think its worse when its products I pay for. For example, I expect an inconsistent UI experience in 'nix because I understand its a bunch of shit written by a million different people working together. I had no questions because I knew what to expect.

When I bought a computer with Windows 10, after sticking to 7 for a long time, I had many questions about why the UI experience and common system control were flung about with careless abandon, because I've paid for it, paid for previous iterations of it, skipping every other. (as is tradition, every other release is dogshit, explained by what I've seen called "the Windows equation": 3.1>95<98>Me<2000</>*XP>Vista<7>8<10, close enough, I don't remember exactly how it goes) Things that used to be a few clicks away and intuitive to find are now sometimes many clicks away in the damnedest places.

It was made by one company, and previously was much more fluid and intuitive. Now, using the product is becoming more difficult, which isn't something I'm happy to pay for. I don't pay money for any FOSS, so I don't have as much skin in the game. If my money is in the game, my concern is greater.

*debatable exception
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Cool, I don't pay for proprietary software either, I just pirate older stuffs because modern software in general is dogshit and I don't believe in copyright laws.

In all seriousness, I wasn't trying to say that proprietary software is better than FOSS. I was trying to say that FOSS communities themselves (NOT the software) have declined much worse than other spaces in my opinion due to the reason I have stated in my previous post. Perhaps, I wasn't clear about this, so here is my rectification of it.
 
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Average K-On Fan said:
Cool, I don't pay for proprietary software either, I just pirate older stuffs because modern software in general is dogshit and I don't believe in copyright laws.

In all seriousness, I wasn't trying to say that proprietary software is better than FOSS. I was trying to say that FOSS communities themselves (NOT the software) have declined much worse than other spaces in my opinion due to the reason I have stated in my previous post. Perhaps, I wasn't clear about this, so here is my rectification of it.
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Here, let me help.... FOSS communities have declined precipitously because they have been invaded by terminally-online autists who invariably troon out and then hijack the community for their own personal drama while technical matters get sent to the back of the bus with the rest of the niggers.
 
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UERISIMILITUDO said:
Yeah, like Lunduke. Say, is Lunduke a programmer, or does he just read articles for his audience of easily-offended people? I don't know, but I think I know the answer anyway.
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Reading a news article to us from a screen. Defending Israel. Is Lunduke the Tim Pool of open source reporting? Quick, shave that man's head and give him a beanie!

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Cool, I don't pay for proprietary software either
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If you've ever bought a laptop and wiped Windows off of it to put Linux on, you've paid for Windows. It's rolled up into the cost of the laptop, and the license is permanently tied to the manufacturer ID in the BIOS/UEFI firmware.
 
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Computer Guardian said:
Imagine needing a fund to continue supporting your monopoly of the market you have. Did this come from the FTC wanting Google to sell Chrome?
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Almost certainly, yes. Insofar as Chromium owns the web browser market then those who are dependent upon it will want to come together to make sure that if it gets wrenched out of Alphabet's hands then it remains under their control at least. This doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to happen, but rather that there's enough fear, uncertainty, and doubt that people are making plans just in case.
 
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Chromium shares a web browser market monopoly largely because normies are very, very tech illiterate, and don't know anything about the software they're using. The average person doesn't even know what the hell Chromium is. That's like one of reasons why it's going to be so hard to change it.
 
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UERISIMILITUDO said:
Yeah, like Lunduke. Say, is Lunduke a programmer, or does he just read articles for his audience of easily-offended people? I don't know, but I think I know the answer anyway.
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He used to be a programmer, not sure if he still is. His old website listed games and projects he was working on but he revamped it at some point and replaced all the creativity with politisperg shit.

Here's what it used to look like: https://web.archive.org/web/20140517210605/http://lunduke.com/

Probably his most ambitious project was Illumination, a tool for developing applications using visual programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumination_Software_Creator

You can download his old games at https://web.archive.org/web/20130806101500/http://lunduke.com/?page_id=3500 if you're curious what they were like.
 
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