Closed source software is not the same as patent protected software. Releasing a offline usable closed source binary under no license is so much more ethical then a proprietary (patent) license that threatens people with prison time and civil liability for sharing/modifying software or using it the wrong way. Also the addition of spyware sometimes and cloud tethering. Which I also oppose.But it seems TMK that Stallman may conflate offline usable closed source and patented software as if they are both as bad. but maybe some people know more about him then I do, Does he recognize the difference and what does /g/ think of the difference? I'm saying I strongly agree with Stallman big tech patent hoarding and patent trolling is harmful, and and I view the GPL3 like a voluntary contract programmers agree to participate in and hope to abolish all patents one day, but I'm not following his logic that seems to hint at closed source software being illegal as an ultimate goal. Patents should be illegal but not software with no public code.
>>107736639Fix gimp or fuck off
>>107736639>Patents should be illegalt. Jeet that never created anything or ever will
>>107736727>actually rent seeking is productive and you would like it if you were a productive rent-seeker like medon't smash your nose on the door
>>107736639Monster Maxxing, if you be advertising the monster, it makes me think I've somehow made a mistake with my diet choice for this drink, even though I've done a thorough evaluation on the ingredients of this drink and determined it to be very healthy for consumption and even good for weight loss.Can somebody tell me what I've done wrong if I've done something wrong?
I'm making a new GIMP GEGL plugin
>>107736639>patentYou seem to be confused.
>>107737754I meant both. Anything that prevents the user from developing competing software based on the same principles and rules on how they can use the software and how many computers they can install it on.Both patents and proprietary software fall under that label. But close sourced with just a binary does not.
>>107737786All software is copyrighted unless you waive those rights.
Despite Stallberg calling AI "bullshit generators" Grok largely agrees with Stallberg's analysis on patent hoarding and trolling in the 90s to 2000s but he seems to think the GPL wasn't very effective at safe guarding against it. He keeps saying it was a landmark lawsuit in 2014 that weakened the ability of patent trolls and by that time more commercial software was moving to the cloud so it wasn't being redistributed for offline use anyway.So the way I conclude is that we need to build a time machine and abolish software patents in the year 1995 that way we can get a decentralized economy powered by free and open source software because the timeline we are in is already doomed.
