gioscarab (u/gioscarab)

gioscarab commented on Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement · Posted by u/gioscarab

gioscarab · 3 years ago

To be clear, the word "human" is used determine who can use the software because I am convinced that, when a company, institution, organization or corporation is created, it has its own intelligence, means and interests that go beyond and above the interests of human beings.

Many are scared of the singularity, thinking that general artificial intelligence out of human control is the greatest threat for humanity.

I am convinced that the greatest threat for humanity is more probably just a corporation operating to achieve its own interests.

gioscarab commented on Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement · Posted by u/gioscarab

achenet · 3 years ago

How do you draw the line between companies and individuals? Is a one man consulting 'company' allowed to experiement with the software?

Personally, I feel the way to "save" the open source movement would be simply have maintainers start valuing their time more properly.

Something along the lines of "This is my project, you can use it if you want. If you want a patch added, pay me. If you want support, pay me."

gioscarab · 3 years ago

A one man company consulting another would apply the software for commercial purposes. Commercial use is not comtemplated by the license. The one man company should contact me and buy a different license.

I am not sure about: >"This is my project, you can use it if you want. If you want a patch added, pay me. If you want support, pay me."

Because if you are an experimenter asking for a patch I could be also interested in, that could help the project in any way, I could consider doing it for free as part of effort required to develop the project.

gioscarab commented on Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement · Posted by u/gioscarab

h2odragon · 3 years ago

Hobby clubs? Nonprofit organizations?

It's a difficult space and there's reasons there's so many options already. Not that it isn't worth further effort, and more options are often useful.

gioscarab · 3 years ago

Hobby clubs could not use it because they are an organization, members of the club could use it because they are individuals playing with their hobby. Non-profit organizations could not use it.

I must say often non-profit organizations even if not producing money have strong conflicts of interest.

gioscarab commented on Show HN: A license designed to save the open source movement · Posted by u/gioscarab

gioscarab · 3 years ago

The idea is, let experimenters tinker with it and help you develop your idea, while at the same time exclude companies, institutions, organizations and corporations. If the software is interesting for them they can contact the copyright holder to buy a different license.

Instead of giving away for free our work to entities that may work against our own interests, we give it away for free only to people like us.

gioscarab commented on The operative system for a decarbonised, decentralised, digitised energy system nicolabortignon.com/the-o... · Posted by u/snickmy

gioscarab · 4 years ago

> It needs to supports, out of the box, cloud connected or wifi enabled (wireless lan connected) devices. When the physical layer of devices in the home don’t offer Wireless connectivity, hardware communication modules needs to be adopted to bridge the existing connectivity.

The protocol the OP wishes for exists already, it is called PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

gioscarab commented on IPFS Local Offline Collaboration Sig blog.fission.codes/ipfs-l... · Posted by u/allenleein

gioscarab · 4 years ago

Until it ultimately relies on Amazon S3 and a commercial network provider all the effort to obtain "decentralization" looks wasted. I hope IPFS will someday run on top of protocols like PJON ( https://github.com/gioblu/PJON ). Decentralization and democratization of networking will happen from the lower end, when the network infrastructure will be ours, and we will not be forced to pay multiple corporations to temporarily store our data or get it from one end to the other. Then, IPFS may have sense.

In my opinion we should:

1. Specify new data link and network standards for decentralized networking over private and decentralized networks

2. Build the networks

3. Start to think about high level stuff like IPFS

gioscarab commented on Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube? · Posted by u/easterncalculus

gioscarab · 4 years ago

broken

gioscarab commented on What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network? thingsquare.com/blog/arti... · Posted by u/tdrnd

gioscarab · 5 years ago

PJON supports mesh networking too, it is open-source and free to use, check it out: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

its address space may be beneficial (more flexible, lower overhead) for many use cases.