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Comment Re:F/OSS guys. (Score 1) 243

Agreed, and there is the AGPL as mentioned which tries to extend copyleft, however it has failed in part because there was already too much money and power benefiting from the status quo, and those community leaders who could have made a difference didnt support it, even SFC want it to be watered down and made into a Lesser APGL.

What would have made a difference is a collective licensing organisation that had the power to change entire projects future work and adapt to new threats. There where attempts to move in that direction, but again they where shouted down by those with power and influence.

FOSS was started and controlled by hobbyists, they have almost no influence today, it has become a means of control as bad as proprietary ever was.

At the heart of the failure is the open source definition, and the FSF basic freedoms, which demands FOSS software has to be able to used for any purpose, even to do harm to movement itself.

Comment Corproation, not software (Score 5, Insightful) 243

Corporations who use FOSS are taking over the world

FOSS provides the means for them to concentrate their power by making them more independent of other greedy software corporations who used to fight them for it.

FOSS assists in a concentration of power by select corporations.

Not the way i hoped it would work out.

Comment China (Score 2) 66

Also, the ability of the Chinese government to force nationals to do the bidding of their intelligence agencies was cited as a reason to ban Huawei and ZTE from supplying 5G equipment.

It created a possible legal conflict of interest where a Chinese run company might be required to, but not able to abide by both Chinese and Australian law.

The Australian government are deepening divide of personal and national security. Tech companies caught in the middle.

Comment 100% FOSS or no FOSS (Score 1) 203

There should be a license that doesnt allow any commercial software to be distributed on the same device or medium.

The same concept that debian uses to seperate main, contrib, non-free

But it skeptical it can be fixed now, there is too much money invested in capitalizing on other people work, it would be like ending slavery...

Comment Re:Not encryption backdoor, Man-in-the-Middle (Score 1) 168

Actually, i think i was overly optimistic.

"Designated communications provider must not be required to implement or build a systemic weakness or systemic vulnerability etc"

So the ISP isnt allowed to install a backdoor, but they can be required to conduct a man-in-the-middle attacks which can be used to install backdoors.

Comment Not encryption backdoor, Man-in-the-Middle (Score 1) 168

It looks to be mostly about getting IPSs to help the government conduct man-in-the-middle attacks rather than backdoors (initially).

There is better coverage of it at itnews;
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...

Three types of notices;
1. Request for Voluntary assistance
2. Technical assistance (within their current capability, eg handover known keys)
3. Technical capability notice (build/provide new capability)

The third type is obviously most dangerous, especially the following can-of-worms;
  - Substituting, or facilitating the substitution of, a service
  - Removing one or more forms of electronic protection that are, or were applied by, or on behalf of, the provider
  - Facilitating or assisting access to whatever law enforcement wants: a facility, device, service and any software used in conjunction with those things

And ISPs have to wear some of the cost, and do their work;
  - Assisting with the testing, modification, development or maintenance of a technology or capability
  - Notifying particular kinds of changes to, or developments affecting, eligible activities of the provider

Comment Non-commercial licence (Score 1) 138

I feel the FOSS community would be in a much healthier place if it allowed non-commercial licenses, provided the software available under standard commercial FRAND terms for those non-commercial users.

If the price of paying for a commercial license is cheaper than paying lawyers, i think there would be much higher license compliance, and much would be used to promote further development.

Unfortunately this will never happen with the support of the FOSS community, there is too much self interest by corporations in maintaining their current freeloader status-quo.

Comment Re:Now, he is in prison (Score 1) 321

There are obvious similarities between the freedom trade-offs in the software world and many other aspects of life. The fact that you aren't willing to let yourself see that, and your lack of emotional control indicates your not capable of seeing the truth.
Have some respect for yourself and stop choosing to be an intellectual and emotional cripple.

Comment Re:Now, he is in prison (Score 1) 321

"facing consequences of his actions" has nothing to do with definition of freedom.

You must have no understanding of the concept of copyleft, and sacrificing some freedom to promote freedom for the system.

From your high account number and generic opinion you may as well be working in a bot farm, or worse your an unpaid propaganda victim.

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