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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

'Open source', a phrase deliberately engineered with several different meanings, is very effective at scamming us out of libre software.

A service cannot have a software license. It is a service, not software. We are not bound by a software license when someone else runs their software on their device.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could the AGPL license help with this? I'm no expert (not even an amateur) but that seems to be why it was constructed:

If you let users access any AGPL licensed software over a network, then that is also a form of distribution. This is what the GPL had missed out. With the boom of the cloud era, SaaS has exploded, and instead of distributing software directly, developers and vendors started digitally delivery of software.

https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misunderstood-license-86fd1fe91275

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, correct, and the title does not say AGPL or libre software. 'Open source service' is a nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is a nice writeup on this by the GNU people:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did you really use the "insert link" option to put a link in your comment?

Just paste the link directly into the text body.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Your link doesn't display. My client treats it as an image URL.

Here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If you leave the cornered brackets empty, some clients (like mine) won't show the link at all:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Did anyone receive their invitation code yet? I registered a week ago or so when they first announced it, but so far, nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

common marketing ploy to gauge interest levels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, and utilizing the time where everybody is hating on google & co., hoping nobody notices that Mozilla is also a US company.

Still, I'd like to give it a try at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Id totally give them a shot if they have hosted email etc. but a marketing ploy is a marketing ploy. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Same here. I don't think theyve given out any invitations yet though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Same boat as you