Libre Culture

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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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The FSF and the GNU Project are shills. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hear me out on this. The very concept of Libre, in abstract and in software, includes the free ability to distribute, copy, modify, etc. This is true of Libre 3D models, FLOSS hardware, and the like. This implies that it's only Libre if it's also gratis, otherwise you create an economy of inequity, with one person paying for it, and the rest getting it from them for free.

It's generally OK to charge someone for labor, but the FSF and GNU project actively encouraging users to sell Libre products at as high a markup as they can get away with ("Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can." From the GNU project https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html) is just shilling for capitalism in a broken world.

Obviously this is in the context of currency, the economies of effort, thought, and exchange are more complex.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

How is that selling and not requesting donation? Encouraging the sale of a product inherently puts limits on the product, even if it's also offered for free.

For instance: having a product that claims to be FLOSS, and then releasing code that is difficult to compile without proprietary libraries or impossible to compile on certain platforms, and then selling the precompiled binary at a markup. How is that OK? How is that not seen as gatekeeping the product? How is that not putting a barrier to the product that is antithetical to the Libre manifesto? (Specifically the taking of creative work and turning the work over to profiteers)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What you describe is not FOSS and also strongly opposed to by the FSF and GNU Project. Especially the FSF has a long history of calling out projects (and designing copy-left licenses against) that pretend to be FOSS and then put such artificial limitations in place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The FSF endorses Fritzing, which does exactly what I was saying, as an example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

You got some source to back that claim up?

Edit: in case you mean that it is difficult to compile on Windows... well honestly that is a Windows and not a FSF or FOSS problem and if this company charges extra for Windows binaries that is more then justified due to the difficulties & costs of making them.