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FOSSTard, FreeTard or GNUTard, not to be confused with a FOSSoid, is an insufferable person whose most prominent identity is Free Software advocacy (#FOSS advocacy) done the wrong way. These people can be identified online by the GNUJihad flag, or by the language they use when writing their long posts about how Free Software is better than proprietary software in every way. Usually by writing "Total proprietary death" or it's acronym "TPD" somewhere in the post.

Instead of advocating for practical Free Software use, they support only 100% Free Software solutions while ignoring how broken and unusable they can be. Thus eliminating any potential new users of Free Software they could have convinced otherwise.

Differences between a FOSSTard and FOSSoid

FOSSoids are usually harmless and support Free Software only in places where it makes sense and try to develop solutions in places where Free Software doesn't work. They are non-argumentative and don't engage in long threads about Free Software. And if they do, they laugh at the stupidity of it.

Differences between a FOSSTard and FLOSSTard

FLOSSTards are a less harmful version of FOSSTards, who felt the urge to add the L in #FOSS, thus creating #FLOSS (Free and Libre Open-Source Software) and support the now popular dance from the game Fortnite. While also ignoring that free and libre means the same thing.

Diferences between a FOSSTard and GNURetard

GNURetards are an extremely annoying version of FOSSTards that lack the knowledge about software and hardware topics they are constantly talking/arguing about in their usually unprompted posts/replies. They are extremely argumentative and cannot understand that they are usually completely wrong.

Am I a FOSSTard?

• Do you call Linux distros GNU/Linux distros? - Yes
• Do you interject in random threads about software and talk about Free Software? - Yes
• Do you have the GNUJihad flag in your biography on the Fediverse? - Probably yes
• Do you use freesoftwareextremist.com? - Probably yes
• Do you use some non-free software and don't mind, because there are no alternatives? - No
• Do you use GNUBoot instead of Libreboot? - Absolutely yes

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I don’t think about free software the way I used to. Freedom to fork isn’t that useful to non-programmers. Proprietary software can also be analysed for backdoors etc without the source code. And I don’t really mind licenses that restrict commercial forks either. I care more about freedom to copy, freedom to use the program as I wish, and independence from server admins.

The license only allows the act of copying the code, distributing said unmodified code and compiling it. It specifically prohibits any modification of it, and/or viewing for any other purpose than review, ie. even debugging it is prohibited, so even non-commercial fork are prohibited.

I misread the license. Thanks.

That’s actually quite concerning because it means if FUTO decide to put something user hostile in Voice Input or Grayjay, nothing can legally be done about it except rewriting the entire thing and imitating it. Which, to be fair, is easier than it would otherwise be with Grayjay because most of the components that make it unique (Polycentric and IIRC plugins/sources, but not AFAICS Harbor (unless that’s just the standalone app)) are open source (unless that’s not true either?).

I did find Section 4 paragraph 1 concerning.

We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.

But I’m not sure why you think Section 3, paragraph 2 is so bad.

If you issue proceedings in any jurisdiction against the provider because you consider the provider has infringed copyright or any patent right in respect of the code (including any joinder or counterclaim), your license to the code is automatically terminated.

I don’t like copyright and probably neither do you. Is it because they are being hypocritical by using copyright themselves while denying it to others (under certain circumstances)?