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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You don't have to use Linux to support Libre Software! Here is the open sourced HaikuOS running on my laptop. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Nah, not really. I am still a contributor to the project and have it installed on my main laptop, but the tendencies are more of a social nature rooted in individuals there.

Just by being the only real alternative to GNU/Linux besides *BSD and *Suse makes people there cocky about how bloated Linux based systems are and about 'free software extremism' and 'unprofessional conduct and design decisions'. The amount to which they support the nonfree corporate BeOS system uncritically beyond the inspiration is also suspicious.

And on a political note, when a random commie joined the Haiku Telegram group, some popular dudes changed their names to " #FuckCommunism" and bullied 'em out.

There are definitely cool people in the Haiku project, but some individuals, even major ones, have a hardon for hating on GNU/Linux and hacker culture in favor of some centralized open source kind of thing.