9 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Mar 2022 \ parent \ on: Ronin Dojo vs Umbrel vs RaspiBlitz bitcoin
LOL all this drama with FOSS.
I think people overreacted to this shit.
It is very clear: if you want to build devices with Umbrel and sell them as commercial company you have to pay a license for their work.
If you run Umbrel as a regular pleb user for your own benefit, is totally free.
The code is open fucking source so what is so big deal with all this drama?
Daaaamn people are so obsessed with this shit.
The issue is with the freedom to be able to do what you want with it, including being able to profit from it. You wouldn't be okay with a limited amount of censorship on Bitcoin so why would you be okay with a little freedom taken away with what you are allowed to do with the software?
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Fucking Open Source Software not Open Fucking Source Software
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LOL :)
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This. Technically it's not "open fucking source" but overall you're right; honestly these arguments often ignore the spirit of the open source ethos. The source code is available. It's not a coincidence that these non-foss node systems have the much more ambitious goal of creating a general purpose server application platform, which is awesome and in fact is critically important for the future of free computing. It's a lucrative platform that can easily be hijacked, so they need to use a different license. It's fine. I love GPL, I love MIT, but we shouldn't limit ourselves to using only these "technically FOSS" tools in our current complex adversarial environment.