On the essence of free software – or: How your smartphone could outlast ten years
https://blog.forgoodeyesonly.eu/2024/01/on-the-essence-of-free-software-how-your-smartphone-could-outlast-ten-years/
Published: January 3, 2024 00:00
Your mobile phone could endure longer than one or two years – if its manufacturer were not perfidiously trying to prevent that. This blog article outlines why one of the dustiest areas of digital politics could yield huge progress with regard to…
Why GitHub Copilot doesn’t violate free software licences
https://blog.forgoodeyesonly.eu/2022/07/why-github-copilot-doesnt-violate-free-licences/
Published: July 10, 2022 00:00
GitHub’s new code completion is an AI trained using free software. Many see this as a copyright infringement of copyleft licences, but this is dangerous half-knowledge. Read here why this is the case and why stricter copyright law won’t get us anywhere. |…
A Defence of Ethical Licencing
https://blog.forgoodeyesonly.eu/2022/06/a-defence-of-ethical-licencing/
Published: June 7, 2022 00:00
Why software freedom should not be equivalent to ignoring our responsibility for the code we write. | Written by Pixelcode. 10 minutes to read.