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

Ferryman said:
Profit-driven corporations will ALWAYS without exception seek to control, centralize, then squeeze revenue from any project they get their hands on.
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Yes and no. Red Hat, for example, used to be a good steward of the FOSS community. They'd regularly feed back into open source. I'd see regular commits back on the freeipa project, for example. They did have some creep, but by and large it was fine. Then IBM bought them and the broke the handle off that lever they went so hard into corporatism, because that's what IBM fuckin' does.

Issue's with companies that do whatever they can to maximize profits at their customer's expense. Unchecked corporatism, and it's prevalent throughout a lot of tech and more.
 
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HelloDotJPG said:
I'd like to hear a better alternative to Windows and Mac in that case.
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Unimaginative Username said:
That's just CEO propaganda. The law only requires that they act in the best interests of the company. The problem is that their bonuses are tied to short-term profit, so that's what they pursue. The sycophantic press, entirely dependent on revenue from ad purchases, cover for this and act like it's a legal obligation and not self-interest. The universities also cover for them, since it's their business schools that teach this kind of MBA thinking, and they are rewarded for this with generous tax-deductible donations from these esteemed alumni.
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Ford v Dodge. Look it up. One of the most stupid decisions ever to be conceived. Bonus points if you look up the Dodge logo from those times
 
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419 said:
So up until now, Stenzek never even had so much as a fucking account on the AUR through which to actually put up his own package or request ownership of the broken package's slug or anything? All this time, he made zero effort to indicate that his own package was even a thing, and now he's surprised that the packages that were there front-and-centre were still being used and still leading a bunch of spergs to come complain to him?
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That is not an unreasonable approach.
As an upstream maintainer you maintain the upstream branch.
You are not supposed to also have account on and maintain the package on hundreds of different distribution repositories.

That is the responsibility of the package submaintainer for the distribution, not for the upstream maintainer to worry bout.

To me this sounds like the package maintainer for dusckstation over at arch is not doing his job or maintaining the arch package properly and instead pushing all that work onto the upstream maintainer.

If you can't fucking maintain the package in your faggot distro repo, then don't fucking bundle it at all. Upstream is not your package maintainer.
 
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Subordination said:
Its not a license but an add-on to an existing one. On top of that there's not really a lot of ways it can be effective other than scaring away anyone who's if not positive at least neutral to the word "nigger".
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RFC: Relicense all of GNOME Foundation's projects under the GPLv3+JBIAR. :smug:

Code: 
The above copyright notice, this permission notice and the sentence "JEREMY BICHA IS A RAPIST" shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
Ford v Dodge. Look it up. One of the most stupid decisions ever to be conceived. Bonus points if you look up the Dodge logo from those times
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Ford v Dodge is one. It forced company c-suits to prioritize shareholder profits over anything else - especially the company itself. However, the main issue is with the public part of a public company. It leads to alienation of ownership and control. They are decoupled, the same way labor is from the means of production.

Henry Ford, one of the greatest men in history, had both ownership of his company and control over it. When he died, that control and ownership got diluted. The same thing happened with Walt Disney. How long did it take for successors to cancel all his plans for the company, namely EPCOT? It didn't even survive the weekend, and that was his own brother in control.

Once control and ownership are separated, the company itself becomes this hideous, ethereal thing. It's not real to either shareholders or execs.

Shareholders see it as just a vehicle to dividend or stock value appreciation. Execs see it as something that exists within next two quarters, everything beyond that is ephemeral. And to the degree that they care, they are managers, as long as stock stays up and they can unlock stock in time, everything is good. None of them care if the company exist in 10 years, they won't be there. The only ones that cares are the workers, and that's only for their wages, and society in general, because without companies - you are poor.

That's why stakeholders are a thing, it's to force company execs to look beyond next two quarters. That's your "too big to fail", institutional investors become stakeholders, government, local community, pension funds. That's also your ESG, to force companies to think about environment, socials issues, and responsible governance. That's your party committee members inside the company to steer it towards being useful to the state.

All of this to fix this one core issue, decoupling of ownership and control of the company. It's not a new issue. Berle & Means ware talking about it in 1933 in practical terms. And it's something that every modern liberal ideology tries to fix - anarchist, syndicalist, communist, international socialist, social democrat, national socialist, laissez-faire types, ancaps, etc., etc. They might not say it in those words, but this is in practical terms what they're doing.

This is why modern companies sucks. It's inherent in the word public.
 
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Has anyone been keeping an eye on the Matrix/Telegram chat for Xlibre? Aparrently there is drama forming over the AUR repository where somebody took lover the xlibre-server name and is pushign out bad versions, and is being very uncommunicative and accusing people raising concerns of being trolls and harassers.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Has anyone been keeping an eye on the Matrix/Telegram chat for Xlibre? Aparrently there is drama forming over the AUR repository where somebody took lover the xlibre-server name and is pushign out bad versions, and is being very uncommunicative and accusing people raising concerns of being trolls and harassers.
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Takes 2 seconds to google it -> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xlibre-server

Do not report packaging or installation issues to the upstream. They won’t be able to help, even if they wanted to, since we are not affiliated in any way. If you’re unsure who to report your issue to, describe the situation here and we’ll decide together whether it’s a task for me or for upstream.
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It wasn't taken over, it wasn't ever official to begin with. Quit being such a helpless fag.
 
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