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  If you aren't supporting it anymore, then you aren't allowed to maintain exclusive access to it anymore. When you stop supporting it, then you now need to free the code and let other people run their own servers. That does not cost you money. If you don't want to do that, then you have to keep supporting it. It's that simple. Your right to maintain exclusive access to the source code of the software you are providing to people *for money*, is contingent upon you keeping the soft...

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  And the private encryption keys they use for DRM and bootloader locking too. I doubt that would go over well, but it needs to fucking happen. It is the only way to truly have right to repair and digital device ownership.

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  Pre-Trump47 I was in the first camp. I'm not going to lie about how long it took me to figure it out. It was always obvious that the system was broken, but I'll admit that for a long time I was foolish enough to believe the system worked well enough that it was worth trying to fix, that the fundamentals were sound and there was enough good there to want to save it. Recent events have shown and continue to show me how naive I've been, none of this is an accident, it's all part of...

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  No, I don't think it does that at all. People need to be able to see the world in more than just binary choices, "it is, or it isn't". I reject the premise that things can't be in between, that it can't be a little bit of slavery, while still understanding that plantations were a whole lot of slavery. Comparing the similar aspects of things and discussing the things they have in common is not the same as equating them and we can have better discussions if we resist the...

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  >no living being will be able to make heads or tails out of the code we run. Which is fine, because somebody will just vibe code a replacement when it gets too unwieldy and then we'll start the cycle of unmaintainability all over again. Welcome to the era of disposable, limited-use software. While you're all working on dealing with that, don't mind me, I'm just going to be over here admiring all this artisanal, hand-crafted software running in a carefully arranged and manua...