more on the topic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ (that greatly predates the coining of the confusing, narrowing term "open source" as an attempt to replace/erase the philosophical goals of free/libre software)
The goal is to collectively free humans from the enslavement and dangers that proprietary computing represents.
It's a collective fight for freedom. Then of course we must continuously question and revise the tactics, and invent new ways of funding, sustaining, supporting, etc... the goal.
I agree with the geneal idea that one could do even more than what the GPL does, but i think it does a lot already.
On the case of Android, i think Google doesn't care too much about the kernel code itself, wouldn't mind contributing back to it if they had to, as the entire ecosystem of software around the kernel is what they use to capture users and keep control of their devices... GGL doesnt need the kernel for that, and the linux kernel is a smol drop of code in the ocean of a prison that is android...
See how Google is adverse to the use of the AGPL in their own products https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html this would in practice force them to reveal to their users how they process their data, and would probably scare them to death...
So I am not a proponent of copyright, but it seems that GPL and AGPL are pretty effective tools at discouraging corporations in some cases (not perfect though)
then why not wording as "what is the worst wrong doing you've done?" am asking from the standpoint of language (and the one of instance policy), as "sin you've done" sounds to me, at face value, like bigotry (ie. integrating the view of one religion as something universal and/or real)
The speech of Clinton at Wall Street is one of the most devastating because she actually lied and used double speech all the way
The efforts to undermine Sanders are despickable
Inflating Trump campaign, of all GOP candidates, is both dumb, cynical and short-sighted.
But again that's only the bits i personally remember from (reading) the emails.
All I said is:
this was newsworthy and of general interest;
any journalist like Assange, if given authentic, unaltered material of general interest has a duty to publish them. (that's called journalism);
there is no evidence that WikiLeaks knew their source was from RU intel (if it was). It was said many time the organisation functioned in such way that they cannot know the identity of their sources, and anyone who has ever been in the business of source protection would confirm it is a smart principle.
To other fantasy claims that "WL had the GOP emails too but decided not to published them lol" i replied "haha wait what?!" and was presented with meak links about "GOP got 'hacked' period" with no trace of email being transmitted to whoever.
Now please go on barking about my nickname, changing topic or whatever.
(never sayd Podesta was a meanie. i think anyone involved in the DNC or GOP is probably a piece of shit that doesnt deserve my respect, but i think the same of many other political parties in many other countries...)
oh and by any chance, are you from the USofA? that way you have of being right about things by being louder.... quite fascinating :)
In that article (first time i heard of GOP being hacked I read
" Comey later added that “there was evidence of hacking directed at state-level organizations, state-level campaigns, and the RNC, but old domains of the RNC, meaning old emails they weren’t using. None of that was released.”
Comey said there was no sign “that the Trump campaign or the current RNC was successfully hacked.” "
So yeah "GOP being hacked" big deal. not "GOP emails were sent to WikiLeaks who decided not to publish it" which is indeed raw made up bullshit.
"Ms Brazile took over at the DNC when its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz over hacked emails which revealed the party establishment's favouritism towards Mrs Clinton."
I never claimed the DNC undermined Sanders in the primary. That Clinton campaign undermined Sanders, it's very different...
Do you really want we go and search in the Podesta emails to see who is right here?
What else? Assange caused global warming? Cause the US to let their pants down in Afghanistan? Assange has weapons of mass destructions? What else to justify the unjustifiable, all these violations of international and national rights, violations of human rights, mis-use of the US espionnage act against a non-US citizen and precedent that will affect all journalism? Maybe Assange caused UAPs...
Wait what? what Republicans' emails? where have you heard that? I followed the case quite closely and never heard they had access to these emails.
So the answer would be: because no source came forward to them offering Republicans' emails, otherwise they probably would have published them too...
A lot of the activity described in the US Army Warlogs in Afghanistan and Iraq happened under a Republican presidency... the Vaul7 release happened under a Republican presidency, etc. I think that reading WikiLeaks' history under the ultra-narrow US prism of Republican-Versus-Democrats is a bit of a mistake. Not the entire world can be reduced to one or the other of these two...
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because i hate injustice, and one day figured that surveillance enables imbalance of power, therefore injustice.