Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Freedom

Why Can EU Citizen's Petition for Software Freedom, but We Can't? (fossforce.com)
Somebody from Austria has petitioned the European Parliament to start using Linux and open-source apps instead of Microsoft stuff.
Open Source, Software Freedom, Politics, Europe, Law
5 points by em-bee 8 days ago | 1 comments
Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of "Open Source" (sfconservancy.org)
This week, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made their new Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) official with its 1.0 release. With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates.
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Software Freedom
32 points by jrepinc 21 days ago | 1 comments
Software freedom isn't about licenses – it's about power (2021) (rosenzweig.io)
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as synonyms to software freedom. Licensing does matter; user autonomy is lost with subscription models, revocable licenses, binary-only software, and onerous legal clauses. Yet these issues pertinent to desktop software do not scratch the surface of today’s digital power dynamics.
Software Freedom, Software Licensing
38 points by pabs3 22 days ago | 11 comments