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AGPL? Google has a ban on all AGPL software. Sounds like if you write AGPL software, corporations won’t steal it.

Code licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) MUST NOT be used at Google.

The license places restrictions on software used over a network which are extremely difficult for Google to comply with. Using AGPL software requires that anything it links to must also be licensed under the AGPL. Even if you think you aren’t linking to anything important, it still presents a huge risk to Google because of how integrated much of our code is. The risks heavily outweigh the benefits.

Any FLOSS license that makes a corporation shit its pants like this is good enough to start from IMO.

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy

If it’s only internal then technically the internal users should have access to the source code. Only the people who receive the software get the rights and freedoms of the GPL, no one else.

People don’t understand: we already outlawed “theft” and “stealing”—we wouldn’t need COPYright laws if they prevented theft or stealing 😂 they only prevent copying, aka not theft or stealing.

But people keep strawmanning “stealing is bad mmkay???”

I’m not sure how you can look at hundreds of years of IP laws getting btfo by pirates and say the ship is sinking 😂

I’m sorry, but until you can somehow answer the question of “how to make people avoiding laws impossible?” without causing a revolution, there will be laws avoided by people

No laws have ever stopped people from getting what they want. Games will be made by those who hate IP laws and be played by those who seek it. Will that scene be a trillion dollar industry backed by governments and international corporations like the AAA scene is today? Probably not. Will a punk indie scene exist? Of course.

Every popular entertainment medium that has a giant industry will see these same results as well. Movies, books, music, etc. As long as the medium is popular, it will persist outside of IP laws.

Thom has a point about Trump and not playing in America. Personally I’d rather see more people boycott America.

why u snitchin on ezra

GitLab isn’t open source, and certainly isn’t an open project first — they have a sales team, a marketing team, and a budget who does not account for getting new dev users

I don’t think anyone is against paying to watch a decent quality sports stream without popups and any additional ads. I won’t give the nfl $100/mo but I’ll pay $50/yr for some pirated setup

It’s quoting the source who used that specific term

You make wonderful points, but I think we can both agree that I’ve demonstrated that there is value open source drivers, however insignificant they may be in comparison to non open drivers isn’t really relevant. It shouldn’t be such a shock an individual may want an open source only version of Linux which is the topic of discussion here.

At some point there’s proprietary stuff in our bodies, be it a driver, a BIOS or the code that runs on the various microcontrollers that run low level functions from the USB ports to simple power management.

The most “security paranoid” organizations in the world usually run a lot of stuff on children and babies are full of opaque and proprietary code and they consider it “safe enough”.

People are replacing lost/damaged organs and limbs with computer-controlled hardware. The same problems that occur in computers that exist outside of humans will occur in computers inside of humans. Do you trust non-open drivers from Corporation X or Government Y in your eyes telling your brain what you do or don’t see?

That’s the extreme, of course, but it isn’t any less scary than computers you trust with your credit card, bank account, etc information.

Open source drivers means when corporation X goes under, your hardware still can work and isn’t automatically abandoned. It keeps more hardware out of landfills longer, with the ability to drastically reduce e-waste.

How confusing will looking up “elixir mix Linux” be in web searches though 👀

You can just look at the source code… no need to assume anything. You can’t prove a negative lol

I switched from a 3070 to an Rx 7900XT on Sunday. Uninstalling all of nvidia shit was great. I used linux-zen so that meant using nvidia-dkms. So happy I don’t have to deal with that anymore. And yeah, I use a lot of flatpaks, so removing all of those nvidia drivers was also a great feeling. And now I can use Wayland!

https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source

Thanks :) I have a lot more “Get Inspired” articles in the works! Ironsworn, Blades in the Dark, Genesys/Star Wars just to name like half of what I have started 😅

One Unique Thing I’ve seen so much heartache and strife around. GMs love to imagine the cool things their players are gonna say only to then shoot 'em down

Yeah, a lot of GMs aren’t really ready for one unique things, especially since it gives up part of their worldbuilding.

Intercepting is something I indepentently came up with and playtested for a while but it wasn’t working very well for us compared to the Wizardry “front rank / back rank” system that The One Ring also uses

I GM a 13th Age game and I play in one and I’ve seen intercepting used pretty much every fight at least one time–seems useful for my groups

Range bands, sure, I wanna simplify it even further to engaged vs ranged. Again taking more cues from The One Ring RPG which in turn works like Wizardry did.

I mean, I don’t even like ranges necessarily, but it’s certainly a much more welcome system than a grid to me :)

Escalation Die, I dislike. I like the idea of immediate results, fortune at the very end, you know viscerally right as the dice hit the table if you hit or missed. To that end, a player can write down “I hit these ghûls if I roll a an 8 or higher” but the escalation die messes with that.

Yeah, my favorite games (Powered by the Apocalypse, Forged in the Dark, and Ironsworn) all have dice mechanics where you pretty much know instantly what the results are (PbtA and Ironsworn have a tiny bit of math, but still)

The “living dungeons” I also don’t find particularly fun to engage with as a player. I’d wanna do something crisper and blorbier.

Agreed. I don’t run them–personally don’t find them that interesting.

You’re right about those monster stat blocks.

Because they’re sooo good 😩

Got a link to those? :3