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Cory Doctorow

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20 Oct

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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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/19/moi…

#Pluralistic

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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1450491937954226185

The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin: It's a feature, not a bug.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1450491937954226185

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Oct

The #DebtCeiling debate is genuinely absurd: Congress authorized the spending of new dollars, so the Treasury has to create them. For Congress to turn around and force the Treasury NOT to create the dollars it ordered the Treasury to create is an obvious political gimmick.

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If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2021/10/19/moi…

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Hence the #TrillionDollarCoin - a proposal to use a 2000 amendment to 31USC§5112k ("Denominations, specifications, and design of coins") that permits the Treasury Secretary to "mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coin [at] the Secretary’s discretion."

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Oct

Killer Klowns From Outer Space (Stephen Chiodo, 1988) wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/665479245…

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Cory Doctorow

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19 Oct

Princess Daphne in Dragon’s Lair seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/665446172…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Oct

Vincent Price stars in Roger Corman’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1960) adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe story. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/665475055…