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Within this article we want to describe the logic failures many projects from the sphere of free and libre software are following and especially why Hyperbola do not and will not include or even mention further projects. Aside of we do not include a list of projects as this article is meant as generic description of fallacies. | Within this article we want to describe the logic failures many projects from the sphere of free and libre software are following and especially why Hyperbola do not and will not include or even mention further projects. Aside of we do not include a list of projects as this article is meant as generic description of fallacies. | ||
- | First of all we will use the idiom **[[https:// | + | First of all we will use the idiom **freedom is not self-evident** as figurative meaning and expression also within this article. Therefore we want also to underline as others that free, libre software and culture is in a shape of crisis. We do not intend to get this mentioned idiom into misconception also. The conception of **freedom** as ultimate ratio for democratic participation and expression for every individual being is coming with a responsibility: |
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+ | **But what is this " | ||
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+ | The wording is seen for every individual different, sidewise when reading this article. We refer to " | ||
===== About free, libre culture and software ===== | ===== About free, libre culture and software ===== | ||
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With this any restriction towards making a derived work for whatever reasoning is no longer seen as free, libre software (//for example to restrict or forbid commercial usage//). But the fallacy is going beyond as this leads also to further assumptions being made: Making derived work or buy projects only with the intention of making more money, not with enrichment of society or bringing people any kind of technical emancipation. On those roots the new word " | With this any restriction towards making a derived work for whatever reasoning is no longer seen as free, libre software (//for example to restrict or forbid commercial usage//). But the fallacy is going beyond as this leads also to further assumptions being made: Making derived work or buy projects only with the intention of making more money, not with enrichment of society or bringing people any kind of technical emancipation. On those roots the new word " | ||
- | <note important> | + | <note important> |
- | In recent decades, "open source" | + | In recent decades, "open source" |
With this having in mind we have nowadays projects like [[en: | With this having in mind we have nowadays projects like [[en: | ||
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Nevertheless it is not fair to blame the founders of free, libre software for having their movement hijacked. They were facing difficult odds: The neoliberal consensus of the last few decades has meant that the benefits of technological development have largely flowed to corporations, | Nevertheless it is not fair to blame the founders of free, libre software for having their movement hijacked. They were facing difficult odds: The neoliberal consensus of the last few decades has meant that the benefits of technological development have largely flowed to corporations, | ||
- | But that's one side of the even bigger picture: Free, libre software is also often further misued and mistreated as " | + | But that's one side of the even bigger picture: Free, libre software is also often further misued and mistreated as " |
Hyperbola as project does not speak up against VPN or cryptography: | Hyperbola as project does not speak up against VPN or cryptography: | ||
- | Free, libre software-projects should go against the trend of even more data-consumption, | + | Free, libre software-projects should go against the trend of even more data-consumption, |
===== What can we do about it? ===== | ===== What can we do about it? ===== | ||
- | Hyperbola has taken action about the issues described before and removed many projects associated only as " | + | Hyperbola has taken action about the issues described before and removed many projects associated only as " |
- | All in all this is surely not enough: | + | All in all this is surely not enough: |
* Who owns that data? | * Who owns that data? | ||
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* And who is in charge and command of the users hard- and software? | * And who is in charge and command of the users hard- and software? | ||
- | A “computer” should be per definition a helping tool, not an energy-consumption with endless scaling, not a fear and risk for the data of users and not only in command of others. In the near theory everyone should even be able to build an own computer, an own " | + | A “computer” should be per definition a helping tool, not an energy-consumption with endless scaling, not a fear and risk for the data of users and not only in command of others. In the near theory everyone should even be able to build an own computer, an own " |
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+ | We need to stop using shortened phrases and buzzwords, as they are most only some false promises, being never fulfilled. May it be " | ||
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+ | And in the end there is also a difference: Having original non-free data running with free environments is the follow-up of the original intention for " | ||
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+ | Yes, this all means in the end to reside in a niche, away from some majority. But this is a right for every individual, same as it is a right for the group of "free, libre culture and software" | ||
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+ | It was not possible to oversee the whole outcome when the "free, libre software" | ||
+ | ===== Conclusion ===== | ||
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+ | One essential question stays unsolved: Is the "free, libre software" | ||
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+ | * No historical and political analysis is leaving the movement let alone in unknown fields, so it is needed that the movement itself can order itself. | ||
+ | * No strict handles are used, so projects and teams are left with questionable decisions for tools and further workflows, creating therefore dependencies for unethical, partwise complete non-free services. | ||
+ | * No social responsibility is shown in the wide fields, as to remember that everything is political and every decision is same way. Freedom is important to be preserved but not worthwhile it is just seen alone as own freedom includes also the freedom of others. | ||
+ | * No support from the community let the "free, libre software" | ||
- | We need to stop using shortened phrases and buzzwords, as they are most only some false promises, being never fulfilled. May it be " | + | Possible solutions |
- | And in the end there is also a difference: Having original non-free data running with free environments is wide away from the original intention | + | * The "free, libre software" |
+ | * Strict definitions are working tools, principles | ||
+ | * Social responsibility | ||
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- | Yes, this all means in the end to reside in a niche, away from some majority. But this is a right for every individual, same as it is a right for the group of "free, libre culture and software" | + | As long as misusage is going forward, named within |
- | It was not possible to oversee the whole outcome when the "free, libre software"-movement was started. Nevertheless | + | We have also named "decentralization" |