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Last week, @Gizmodo's @lincodega caught a killer scoop - a leake Hasbro's plan to revoke the decades-old #OpenGamingLicense, which subsidiary @Wizards promulgated as an allegedly #open sandbox for people seeking to extend #DungeonsAndDragons:
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The report set off a shitstorm among #DandD fans and the broader #TTRPG community - not just because it was evidence of yet more #enshittification of D&D by a faceless corporate monopolist, but because Hasbro was seemingly poised to take back a #commons. 2/
When the free software movement started to make headway, proprietary software companies like Microsoft went to war against it, describing the licenses at its core (like the #GPL) as "viral licenses" to scare companies off from using free software.
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The GPL is a software license that coders add to their work that says, "You can do anything with this - change it, sell it, copy it, incorporate it into something else, BUT...you have to redistribute the new projects under the same terms."
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In other words, we are making a software commons - code that anyone can use and improve, but only if they agree to maintain the commons. Like any shared resource, commons need protection from freeloaders who take but do not replenish.
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You know, I'm kinda pissed. I've been TRYING to be really nice to @Sangoma after they fucked me over, but I just discovered they're trying to retcon me out of existence with #FreePBX - it's not like I wouldn't NOTICE, so it's obvious this is a deliberate, and malicious act.
And it's not just me. A bunch of blogposts from various people that were integral to the project over the last 15 odd years have been deleted. They're deliberately trying to erase the past. The only common factor is that the blog posts that were erased were all ...
by people (such as myself) that are very pro Open-Source software. Well, I made that choice when I relinquished control of #FreePBX all those years ago. At the time, I relinquished it to someone I trust (and still do!), and he then sold it to a company,
