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Cake day: October 6th, 2024

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  • Because it’s a gift to corporations at the expense of taxpayers.

    It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes.

    What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements.

    Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not.


  • Reminds me of when the NSA was spying on Yahoo Video calls so they could do their early facial recognition training.

    Since it was a platform mostly used for video sex, The NSA literally made a public statement saying they had a system to blur genitals and that they were “only” training facial recognition data.

    My mind was fucking blown. Who cares if you film my dick? That doesn’t let you identity me from the MacDonald’s cameras you hacked into. The face data is what we were worried about.



  • It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes.

    What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements.

    Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not.