Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:19:32 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)unfortunately, no, the AGPL does not avoid the problem I meant. it looks like I was unclear in my depiction: the local operator is the user, but that wasn't supposed to mean that there wouldn't be remote customers interacting with it. the AGPL doesn't distinguish whose computing the program does and, as such, it can be (and is) misused to impose unjust subjugation on operators, when the computing the component does is the operators'. it also forces inefficient integrations to keep components in separate programs.
but that doesn't mean AGPL is bad. it's a great tool to defend remote users' freedoms, but like most tools, it can be put to harmful uses.
contrast with the web shop's server doing customer's own computing, say managing shopping lists. the user that the computing pertains to is the customer, and so the imperative is for the customer to have the four freedoms, and this web service should thus be provided in a way that respects the customer's freedom. for the web shop, not being the user of that service, the freedoms are not an imperative: it's not entitled to control someone else's computing, even if it performs it itself
uma vez entendido que a comparação é falaciosa, e que a austeridade fiscal acaba sendo um tiro no pé, a pergunta que fica é por que raios o mercado pressiona com tanta força para que o governo limite os investimentos que fariam a economia rodar. considerando que o próprio mercado paga parte do preço dessa austeridade (não tanto quanto os mais vulneráveis, mas enfim), a única explicação que me ocorre é que estejam sabotando o governo mais popular, ainda que não seja um governo de esquerda, pra das duas uma: ou o governo cumpre o que estão exigindo e a economia azeda, com efeitos conhecidos sobre a próxima eleição, ou o governo se rebela pra atender aos anseios da população e aí corremos o risco de levar mais um golpe.
isso tudo me parece meio óbvio. o que não consigo entender é por que as pessoas encarregadas de dirigir e planejar a economia, que presumivelmente sabem que a falácia é descabida, repetem-na como se fosse fato? são tão reféns do mercado que se sentem obrigados a isso?
heh. in my first time in France, I and some colleagues at a buffet had a large variety of cheeses to choose from at the end of a meal. I was determined to try every one of them. I put small pieces on a plate, went back ot our table and started working on them. eventually I got to a very very soft one. a colleague who was enjoying watching me delight with the cheeses tried to warn me, but it was too late: it was butter. not bad, but a little weird without bread underneath.
that seems like a common misconception. licenses are one-way permission grants. they can be contracts in some jurisdictions, but usually contracts are agreements involving meeting of minds. licenses aren't like that, they don't impose obligations, they can at most delimit the permissions that are granted for the licensee to do things that, by law, require permission from the licensor. if it goes beyond granting permissions, say requiring the other party to refrain from doing things that the party could do before, then it's an agreement. the agreement (thus contract) may contain some licensing, which makes it a licensing agreement, but the licensing by itself doesn't require agreement