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  • Decompiling doesn’t give you the code like you’d expect.

    It gives you the instructions the code generates.

    There’s a Lego island decomp documentary on YouTube that is recomend for more details.

    But the actual source code used doesn’t get piped out. Instead you get the machine instructions and you make code that generates the same instructions.

    Meaning your still writing the game yourself, meaning you own the copyright




  • I’m not confusing the two. If I copy the “source available” and accidently remember it in a “commercial” product, I’m technically hooped. It’s considered derivative work and therefore I’m in violation of the license. Regardless if I’m a simple app dev or Google.

    Also, like I said a few times now. I done own the code I contribute. Technically meaning if you contribute code, and use that snippet in a commercial context, again, your in violation of the license.

    This is why copy left is the defacto standard. The author of the code retains copywrite ownership of it.

    Your still resolving solved problems.


  • I never said anything about you or your arguments. I was talking about the analogies the person used to antagonize everyone. And I love how you glossed over all of that to get a little bit hurt at me.

    But while your here, your fighting the wrong battles.

    Because we are much stronger doing things in the open than we will trying to pick and choose who gets to do what. Even small utilities can contribute to people learning and adapting.

    So what if google also benefits? They benefit off of using TCP, SSL, and thousands of standard technology. Should those be charged as well? It’s such a boogy man at the cost of other people learning and benefiting from what you’ve done the same way you benfit from others. It’s not about gatekeeping, it’s about being community.

    I’m gonna draw another place I think too much effort is being given to making sure the “correct” people benefit and that’s selective welfare programs. It’s costs shit tons of money to administer programs like food stamps. When if we gave everyone UBI, it wouldn’t matter. Because everyone gets it.

    EDIT: In a copy left license, I still own the copyright to my work. So there’s that as well.

    But all that on a shelf. I don’t give a fuck what you do with your software. I just don’t want to be called a racists for whatever reason because I believe in community owned software.


  • Oh yeah. People believing in community built and owned software, that runs the entire internet, is totally the same thing as racism. 🙄🤣

    Just because you don’t agree with the views of open source, doesn’t make them brainwashed.

    Because here, you come off as deranged calling others religious fanatics.

    EDIT but what’s really fucking funny to me is you call other people religious fanatics and racists. Or at least like them. While you fanatically paste the anti commercial linecse thing like it’s 2012 Facebook again.




  • Then they will never script anything. They will never automate a task themselves. They will only ever operate a computer manually, interactively, rather than programmatically.

    Here’s the thing.

    Most people don’t care about automation. They just don’t.

    The objective of Linux is to put the spoon on the tray of your toddler’s high chair. Linux encourages her to pick it up, poke it at her food, and keep encouraging her to learn, to develop and build on her skills, until she is asking for the fork, the knife.

    And your still refusing the point. People don’t want a knife and a fork. You can’t make them want it. They want something they can intuitively understand. Because to most people, tech is a basic tool to get another job done.

    Most people only need a basic hammer, screwdriver, etc…

    That’s all they need to do what they need day to day to get other things done.

    Machinists need more complicated tools with tons of settings, complicated setup and saftey to know. So they spend the time learning. But you don’t need a wood shop to hang a picture frame.

    This is before we even talk about accessibility. That means much more than large fonts or screen readers. It’s also about the fact humans exist on distribution curves in every possible way. For some people, it will just never make sense. No matter what you do. Because it’s just not how their brains work. In the same way mine can’t do languages very well. It just doesn’t click for me. And deep dives into computers wont click for some. Should they never learn to use a computer? Or can they learn basic enough functions from good GUIs to get by.

    It’s even fine to say linux isn’t meant for that. But if you want everyone to get away from macOS and Windows, you need a viable alternative for everyone