This is a new general dedicated to free culture and open source movements. ITT we discuss and share free and open concepts and practices, organizations, activists, projects and movements, whether software, hardware or cultural. Shill here your favorite product, ask for recommendations or talk about recent updates.
I'll kick off the thread with an overview of a key concept: Commons-based peer production (CBPP) or social production which describes a new socioeconomic model of production in which large numbers of people work cooperatively (usually over the Internet). Commons-based projects generally have less rigid hierarchical structures than those under more traditional business models. Often—but not always—commons-based projects are designed without a need for financial compensation for contributors. Peer production enterprises have two primary advantages over traditional hierarchical approaches to production: >Information gain: Peer production allows individuals to self-assign tasks that suit their own skills, expertise, and interests. Contributors can generate dynamic content that reflects the individual skills and the "variability of human creativity." >Great variability of human and information resources: leads to substantial increasing returns to scale to the number of people, and resources and projects that may be accomplished without need for a contract or other factor permitting the proper use of the resource for a project.
I'll bet you don't know what half of the buzzword jumble you spouted actually means. A thread died for this.
Dylan Davis
>communism free and open source is very anti authoritarian thus isn't very communist, it's more libertarian or anarchist than communist >implying I didn't even use difficult words, do I need to elaborate something?
Gabriel Hernandez
Open source is not communist because it doesn't force people.
communists are necessarily anarchists. anarchism is the final form of humanity, when history ends. like hegel thought his book would be, but real instead.
Caleb Harris
The Linux foundation is certainly pretty corporate and corrupt. But it isn't really EEE because the whole point is that a bunch of companies that use GNU/Linux fund development so they can all benefit from it and not just one company control it all and fuck others over. The corruption comes more from the insane prices for the conferences they host and the mostly useless staff members like the director who uses a macbook.
Eli Roberts
It's a diverse ecosystem
Joseph White
>Commons-based peer production
How will this work with hardware?
Jackson Reyes
cloud, nigga
Anthony Perez
>hurr communism proprietary shitware is more of a communism because you have a proprietor (dictator) who does whatever he wants with stuff that you have on your computer and you can't do nothing about it, only people who work in dictator's company (a Party of Workers) have power to change something, if you use proprietary software in other way than the dictator wants, someone can tell the Party about you and you'll go to jail, also in most caaes a Party is spying on you, etc. etc...
Easton Cox
3d cad design on the internet and distributed production with for example 3D printers, take a look at opensourceecology
Mesa 18.0.3 released!!!!!! lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-May/194213.html >Mesa 18.0.3 is the latest stable version of Mesa3D for these open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. This latest point release is on the very small side with only about one dozen changes in total. The work in Mesa 18.0.3 includes fixes for RADV Vulkan, fixing a VCN MPEG4 issue for Raven Ridge, a GFX9/Vega workaround for RadeonSI, Intel ANV Vulkan driver allocator fixes, and other minor fixes.
Why is Mesa so based? Remember a few years ago when it sucked and now it's fucking awesome.
DXVK 0.50 Released!!!!! github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v0.50 >DXVK 0.50 presents support for non-native screen resolutions, D3D11 vertex fetch rates when the appropriate Vulkan extension is exposed, optimized render target clear operations, and a number of RADV driver focused optimizations. Additionally, for those using the NVIDIA proprietary driver, for games using 24-bit depth buffers there should also be improved performance.
I don't even understand this lol >open source misses the point because they don't give a fuck about proprierary shit
Jack Ramirez
Can someone explain this to me? Ok, lets say that we are in the future where all software is free software, how programmers are going to get money now?
Juan Campbell
foundations, patreon and donations. best would be if they all became livestreamers and they just code and give snarky comments.
Ryan Moore
According to the Free software movement's leader, Richard Stallman, the main difference is that by choosing one term over the other (i.e. either "open source" or "free software") one lets others know about what one's goals are: "Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement." Nevertheless, there is significant overlap between open source software and free software.
The FSF said that the term "open source" fosters an ambiguity of a different kind such that it confuses the mere availability of the source with the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute it. On the other hand, the "free software" term was criticized for the ambiguity of the word "free" as "available at no cost", which was seen as discouraging for business adoption, and for the historical ambiguous usage of the term.
Developers have used the alternative terms Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), or Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), consequently, to describe open source software that is also free software. While the definition of open source software is very similar to the FSF's free software definition it was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens with input from Eric S. Raymond and others.
The term "open source" was originally intended to be trademarkable; however, the term was deemed too descriptive, so no trademark exists. The OSI would prefer that people treat open source as if it were a trademark, and use it only to describe software licensed under an OSI approved license.
OSI Certified is a trademark licensed only to people who are distributing software licensed under a license listed on the Open Source Initiative's list.
Bug bounties, feature bounties, things like patreon, paid support
Luis Bennett
>look at GNU project software donors and boards >nearly always giant corporations and boards full of guys who work for proprietary software companies GNU wasn't enough, bros.
Julian Foster
Free as in freedom, retard.
Jose Bailey
Thats why i said "...software is free software" not "...software is free" niglet
John Campbell
You can still ask money for a binary, most users won't compile it themselves
Gavin Bennett
Hey! That's actually a pretty cool idea!
Blake Harris
Using the GPL is a choice.
Asher Jones
There's nothing stopping you from charging people to receive a copy of your source. Other people are free to distribute it too, but if you're the creator you can pitch yourself as more reliable since most people wont look at the source they're compiling.
>Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you >need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may >be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used >with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft. These tools >aren't in the distribution - ask me (or GNU) for more info.
Aiden Bennett
>/FcaOsm/ >/FacOsm/ >/FascOsm/ >/Fascism/ Mussolini will be proud
Matthew Martinez
>that brainwash graphic Thank you, now people are dumber than before.
Hello, Lunduke. >REEE THINK OF THE CHILDREN *cough* brainlet
Chase Baker
I know it's fake but the arguments are legit. Why should you have to include the name of the tools ontop of the kernel as name for the OS? Linux also just sounds nicer than GNU/Linux, the whole interjection has become a meme so everyone knows the huge part GNU has played in the creation of the OS
Aiden Phillips
Yeah that's why the account and comment is deleted by google, right?
Also did you even read the pasta. It's completly missing the point (obviously, since it's trolling).
Elijah Adams
GNU (1983) has been an OS long before Linux (1991) was written. GNU/Linux doesn't imply Linux with GNU tools, it implies GNU with Linux. A useful practice, since you can use multiple kernels in GNU like Linux-libre, kFreeBSD, etc.
Noah Rodriguez
You can also have linux without GNU
Justin Martinez
Yes, but Linux is still just a kernel and GNU still an OS.
Carson Diaz
What's your definition of OS?
Aiden King
android doesn't have any gnu too, why not call android just linux?
William Thompson
>GNU Hurd is the multiserver microkernel written as part of GNU. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation, .. >It has been under development since 1990 >28 years ago
Hurd isn't a priority project and nearly nobody is working on it since there's Linux. If it becomes ready, it's because someone loves his hobby.
Adrian Clark
They are the same.
Trying to ignore your employer's politics by calling it "development methodology" and only considering how it affects you and your team just makes you oblivious, and intentionally so.
Adam Foster
>llvm/linux
Hudson Cook
Because it's marketed as Android and is called Android in the settings,etc. People use "Linux" to describe the OS everywhere
Benjamin Baker
GNU is free software that can be executed by the linux kernel. It is a toolkit of libraries and utilities. Not an OS. The kernel is the operating system.
Zachary Edwards
See
Jeremiah Evans
>can't operate on its own >operating system
Logan Campbell
Just call it Debian, Arch or whatever distro you're using.
Their freeservices are pretty neat, there's litteraly everything.
Oliver Moore
Looks cool, exploring it now. I don't speak french though.
Eli Martin
yeah, sadly things aren't always translated, but some stuff are pretty easy to understand. Their VOIP service is pretty good and easy to use + it can do screen sharing
I am honestly thinking to submit a couple features I want myself for some programs. I wish more stuff like this existed. For example, I need this outliner to work with markdown, is super minimal and almost vi like, is just the markdown support that is incomplete.
Evan Bennett
Is open government the real redpill?
Nathaniel Ramirez
russian fake news is a threat to democracy
Aaron Hernandez
*all fake news is a threat to democracy *censorship is a threat to democracy
Angel Ramirez
I'd love if this general caught on, but Jow Forums is full of winbabbies and consumerism. This is one of the few cases where an equivalent board on 8ch would be better due to the fact that they actually discuss technology instead of blindly dismissing arguments and calling others faggots.
Why the fuck isn't this called "FLOSS and Free Culture General"? (/ffcg/) Don't you know that open source is not the same as free software? Why make a FLOSS general if you can just make a thread about whatever piece of software you want to discuss? What does "free culture" have to do with technology?
