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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:

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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.

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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 years ago (1 children)

This is the magazine I would love to see at my dentist's office.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago

Hope the dentist doesn't mind a "Floss Weekly!" magazine, I think they'd prefer something like "Your Daily Floss"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 years ago

I would love to see a pretty list of libre source software coming out and updating. It's somewhat dificult to tell whats going on the libre software world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago

It is more about Linux than FOSS in general tbh. Lwn.net is great, but it is not general FOSS world focused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (2 children)

I used to watch DT on youtube because he covered open source stuff until I ran into one of his videos where he exposed he was an asshat when he went off about how "broken people" are trying to inject ethics into foss with the ethical software movement.

ughh we need people like him that dont suck doing the kind of thing you describe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

The ethical software movement is still pretty dumb tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I mean whether it is or it isn't, DT used it as a pretext to trot out his dumpster views

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I mean I did watch that video but I don't really remember it.

TBH I do not care about people's political opinion as long as what they say is useful to me...

Regarding ethical software, a quote from good ol' Stallman:

A condition against torture would not work, because enforcement of any free software license is done through the state. A state that wants to carry out torture will ignore the license. When victims of US torture try suing the US government, courts dismiss the cases on the grounds that their treatment is a national security secret. If a software developer tried to sue the US government for using a program for torture against the conditions of its license, that suit would be dismissed too. In general, states are clever at making legal excuses for whatever terrible things they want to do. Businesses with powerful lobbies can do it too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Honestly there is a discussion to have here, especially about how much of substance "good ol' Stallman" really has to say in the realm of ethics based upon his behavior but my comments where about DT and the above video.

If you wanna talk about that, watch the video.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Yeah that was just a side note. But ignoring ethics, he got the practicality right: if someone's evil enough to torture people, then a software license is probably not going to prevent them from doing it.

Also, the vast majority of proprietary software licenses include causes against redistributing and using the software to commit crimes. Did it help? I don't think so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Yah I mean thats fair. I just think again DT makes such a shitty point out of this in the linked video. I mean look at the damn comments and all the toxic waste of human beings it brings out of the wood work who are like "yah DT, this is why I love you!".

Its not a cute look.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago

Well there are FOSS-oriented online/offline magazine. But i don't know a single one that's :

  • participatory
  • non-profit
  • fully free-software (including infrastructure and design tools)

If some folks here are interested in building something like this, so am i! We just need a competent webdesigner to get started ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago

Just chiming in to say that I'd be really interested in a magazine like this as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago

this would be pretty awesome, and, if this is a 5 page each month, you could do a bi-yearly print collection to distribute to people irl and maybe get them interested in FLOSS. Or 5 pages every two weeks for a quarterly release.