Notices by McSinyx (cnx@nixnet.social)

@fribbledom, now I’d like to present you exhibit A: https://nixnet.social/notice/ANmiq7QrthiA2AkaKe

they redefined “user” to be the person making the http requests and not the person, you know, who actually edited and is running the software on the computers they own

Say if I borrow your machine, @sneak, and use the software on it, who will be the user, you or me? What software does is transforming data from one form to the other, which makes usage the transformation of data and user the one giving the input and taking the output (in various format). The additional clauses of AGPL (compared to GPL) close the loop hole of SaaSS. Who at which end of e.g. the HTTP requests is not the deal breaker, but who actually uses the software, to be provided as a service or not.

they’re anti-capitalists

The entire concept of software freedom, including copyleft, in contrary to popular belief, is pro-capitalism, by facilitating a free market and competition. Copyright, on the other hand, is about monopolistic power and as anti-capitalism as possible, but I was told that it’s supposed to encourage creativity so :meowShrug:

[they] don’t believe in the concept of private property when it comes to information

I can see your confusion here. Back to the hypothetical scenario, per private property rights alone nothing would prevent me from make an exact copy of your machine when I borrow it and the same for the software. The reason an user of a SaaSS cannot do so is not because private property, but copyright.

I hope this clarifies it for you as well, @arh

@sneak, you are not demanded to publish files from your server because you ran httpd. Per AGPL, users have the right to study/modify/redistribute the software they use. If no one uses the software running on your server, i.e. either no one interacts with it or that the server does not process data on behalf of anyone (in case you use httpd only to for static content, assuming httpd was under AGPL), modifications made to AGPL’ed software need not be disclosed upon requests.

@lxo, in Vietnamese Monday to Saturday are literally number two to number seven, but I use an ISO date widget so it’s a math exercise every time I forget what day it is.

I don’t understand why you mentioned God though, @fribbledom: I’m not a Christian, but I’ve read Genesis out of curiosity and IIRC Jehovah took six days to create the world and spend the seventh day relaxing. I believe that Sunday being the first day of the week has a non-Christian root.