On Sep 17, 2023, Akira Urushibata <a...@wta.att.ne.jp> wrote: > Dennis Payne wrote: >> An argument could be made that Truth Social isn't exploiting Mastodon.
> This is a valid point. One can argue that the conduct of Truth > Social's developer/owner does not affect Mastodon. Mastodon > developers and users can keep doing what they have been doing. Indeed, as long as there's no burden, one could argue that, because software is not a rival good (*), but rather an anti-rival one, Truth Social is even helping Mastodon, in as much as it is known that they're using Mastodon. In this particular case, there is some political burden that sets that back, but I digress. If it weren't for it, should Mastodon be thanking Truth Social? :-) (*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rival_good The conversation on gratitude, and on spreading awareness of a software project as an anti-rival good, connects with: > We here like to talk about the GNU operating system. There was a plan > to bring it into existence: make free replacements of proprietary UNIX > programs and eventually we would have a free OS. By refusing to mention GNU, its opponents strive to deny to GNU the benefit of users' gratitude, recognition, identification, alignment. It's all part of a political struggle. Same as throwing shit at Stallman: it's always been about diverting people away from his revolutionary ideas, the same political struggle. Those who support software freedom, who identify with the cause, tend to align with others who do, and so we support and name GNU, we don't mistake the fabrications for truth, we denounce that pile of lies. Those who don't come up with various kinds of excuses to refuse to acknowledge GNU and to cancel Stallman, and will pretend to support justice and inclusion while unjustly excluding the movement leader, which ultimately makes the entire movement a target for cancellation. It's the same political struggle. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Think Assange & Stallman. The empires strike back _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
