When I buy a game, I’m thinking of buying the experience, not the underlying mechanisms.

When i buy a bicycle i’m thinking of buying the experience, not the underlying mechanisms

you don’t have the info and machinery you’d need to make your own identical bicycle.

When you pirate the game you are making an identical copy of the game

Found one it’s called google, seem like all companies in the world advertise on twitter except for these two in the title that pulled out

Reddit mods also work for free as volunteers. Don’t underestimate internet popularity and power over communities, not so many days ago there were stories about mastodon instances admins getting invited for talks at meta. Lemmy is an open source and decentralized alternative to reddit, using discord for announcements misses the whole point

Releasing the source code would allow anyone to copy AND modify or extend the game as they see fit

So just like when you buy a bicycle irl and you are allowed to customize it and set it up as you want. Are you saying we shouldn’t be allowed to modify goods?

Without the source code there’s no way to know what you are running, ever heard of a spyware named red shell?

I would also like to compile my own binaries for my own system

A house isn’t software, it’s more like getting handled the blueprints of the building. They already have access to the property what’s the difference if they have the blueprints or not

Go on and explain the difference

Like having the source code?

Why not releasing the source code then?

governments and politicians got their hands on it

lemmy.world it’s not “lemmy”

This gives out the impression they don’t care about lemmy being open source and decentralized but rather they are at it for a piece of the cake

Not the case for AI. We are at the beginning of a new era

Let me know where you sign up to renounce to public services and stop paying taxes

They changed their name

Don’t rest assured, for most of his history the vatican was a kingdom with his own army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_the_Papal_States

You won’t also find a single country on this planet that isn’t rooted on violence and that isn’t ruled by corrupted politicians

Drafts are never justified, you don’t own anyone else life

Draft is slavery

Why would US also support Turkey, Egypt, Israel or other dictatorship around the world?