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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025


https://awful.systems/post/5853532

in reply to BlueMonday1984

fresh openwashed proprietary license hell just (well as of 2 years ago, but I’m sneering at it now) dropped:

Harmful free-riding is the sort of free-riding that leads to the free-rider problem

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Examples of such goods are public roads or public libraries or services or other goods of a communal nature. Free riders are a problem for common pool resources because they may overuse it by not paying for the good (either directly through fees or tolls or indirectly through taxes).


from the fucking asshats who made Sentry proprietary under the BUSL but wanted an even more nonsensical license:

Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later we switched to the Business Source License (BSL or BUSL)



How do we feel about the Functional Source License, folks? fsl.software/

in reply to BlueMonday1984

They already had the Essential thing in the Nothing 3, but funnily enough, when I was shopping for a phone, it looked like the least obtrusive and annoying "AI feature" across the board, because every single fucking phone is now "AI powered" or whatever the shit.

But if they turn their OS into "AI native" and it actually sucks ass then great, I don't think there's literally any non-shitty tech left with Framework turning fash.

in reply to V0ldek

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in reply to BlueMonday1984

@techtakes Gnome may be politically non-shitty but it's still an unusable revolting mess, a bad parody of a good desktop environment.