Cryptocurrency: -- The New Social Contract

[other.arkitech]

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On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 10:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:19:26AM +0000, other.arkitech wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:03 AM, Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net wrote:
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> > > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:05:01PM -0300, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:27:57 +0000
> > > > "other.arkitech" other.arkitech at protonmail.com wrote:
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> > > > > For those who like to play a different game in the private sector, a product fit to them will be supplied.
> > > > > If you only tolerate Free software is fine, your choice. For me being open to what exist is essential for survival and rise.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I think free software is far superior to anything else. But that's not because I'm a commie like stallman.
> > >
> > > For the record, Richard Stallman is very pro commercial software, making money from your software development, etc - in fact this is fundamental since his very beginning of the "modern" Free Software movement over 30 years ago.
> > > A lot of people misunderstand this.
> > > Stallman says "make as much money as you can from free software, just make sure it's free software".
> >
> > yes :)
> > Free speech, not free beer
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> :)
>
> Which is why, when non-free software is presented with only a promise of "it'll be free libre at some unknown point in the future, but 'before version 1.0'", some folks are naturally skeptical :D

at the end of the day any development of any product is nothing but a promise.
Some trust must be in place during such a time.
The remaining choices are ignore and/or wait till the product is well mature and adopted (a.k.a missing the early-bird bus)