Gemini Digest, Vol 22, Issue 18

charliebrownau <charliebrownau (a) protonmail.com>

Gday
Maybe I am jumping the gun and over reacting

Did anyone look at Chris McGee Gemini site
It links back to schema.org
https://schema.org/docs/about.html
https://schema.org/

" Founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex"
" Schema.org vocabularies are developed by an open community process,
using the public-schemaorg at w3.org mailing list and through GitHub."

Do we really want another open code project and another group subverted
by Corporations, Patents, Royalities and those who are against Free Speech and Freedom ?

I really hope Gemini doesnt go down the same route as Firefox, Linux Foundation, Ansilbe
and so many others because they allow anyone into X group to push their 
adjenda, surbvert it
kick out the original team/founders and push Anti free Speech, Anti Merit,etc

It seems the whole open source community has been weaked and subverted to support
Corporations
speech code restrictions
Closed Source code/drivers/kernals
Telemary, data collecting, spying on users

Most refuse to address that Python and java are crap
and so much software is delibery forcing requirements of
pythlon, dotnet, java, gnome, systemd, dbus, pulse,etc into it
turning linux into windows centralised depant junkware


Just this week/month we have seen another open code project sold to a corporation
surbverted and ruined - Audacity

Why is open code software allowed to transfer to corporations in the first place ?

I really hope Gemini can stay to the hardcore roots and not become bloated 
web 2nd edition



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> Hello All,
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> I've been finding that the drive to write lengthy articles, rfcs and
> gemlogs has been keeping me from writing anything at all in my gemini
> capsule. Drawing inspiration from micro-blogging platforms that I use
> regularly I started writing gemthoughts, which are meant to be really
> short, simple and approachable so that I will hopefully do this more often.
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> I've started publishing them here:
> gemini://lonelysilo.ca/gemthought
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> A draft description of the format with some semantics can be found here:
> gemini://lonelysilo.ca/rfc/gemthought.gmi
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> Cheers,
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Luke Orlando Emmet <luke (a) marmaladefoo.com>

On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 13:53, charliebrownau <charliebrownau at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> Gday
> Maybe I am jumping the gun and over reacting
>
> Did anyone look at Chris McGee Gemini site
> It links back to schema.org
> https://schema.org/docs/about.html
> https://schema.org/
>
> " Founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex"
> " Schema.org vocabularies are developed by an open community process,
> using the public-schemaorg at w3.org mailing list and through GitHub."
>
>
I think you are perhaps over reacting. Schema.org is not an official part
of Gemini.

People can link to whatever URLs they choose.

Otherwise we all have our own taste about preferred technology. The main
thing is to get the interoperability the way we want in Gemini to keep it
simple.

I doubt whether there is much potential interest from large corporate
entities given Gemini is so limited compared to the web, where they have
the full gamut of cookies, tracking, embedded video, javascript etc.

  - Luke

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Philip Linde <linde.philip (a) gmail.com>


On Wed, 19 May 2021 12:53:10 +0000
charliebrownau <charliebrownau at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Do we really want another open code project and another group subverted
> by Corporations, Patents, Royalities and those who are against Free 
Speech and Freedom ?

What's the nature of the subversion in this instance? As far as I can
see these are versioned standards. Moreover, this is not an official
part of the Gemini specification. The author is indeed using his free
speech and freedom to publish what he thinks is a good idea for Gemini
publishing metadata. You don't have to agree but that's what freedom
entails.

> Why is open code software allowed to transfer to corporations in the first place ?

"Open source" refers to licenses that allow you to copy and modify the
licensed work, not to the ownership or commercial nature of the
software, nor the management of the development process. If you don't
like the Audacity/Firefox projects you can copy the source code and
distribute a fork. This is pretty much the only thing "open
source" implies.

-- 
Philip

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Almaember <almaember (a) disroot.org>

> If you don't like the Audacity/Firefox projects
> you can copy the source code and
> distribute a fork. This is pretty much the only thing "open
> source" implies.

It also means that they don't limit what you're allowed to use the 
software for.

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