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\emph{user} of software.}
\item Huge number of libraries and tools for web development
\lecture{Because of all the reasons I mentioned,
the number of libraries focused on web development is crazy,
and steadily growing. You can have working software running
on most every modern operating system quickly and relatively
easily. And most of these popular libraries are free
software. The most daunting task for new web developers is
often what library to pick.}
\lecture{Because of all those reasons, the number of libraries focused
on web development is crazy, and steadily growing. And most
of these popular libraries are free software. The most
daunting task for new web developers is often what library to
pick.}
\item Even server/desktop software [substitutes] using web libraries
\lecture{And then we have software like Node.js that allows running
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\begin{frame}{Effortless \emph{Proprietary} Software}
\lecture{While it's making software easy for the good guys, it's also
making it easy for the bad guys! And there's an explanation for
that.}
making it easy for the bad guys! And there's an easy explanation
for that.}
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> We have a licensing problem.
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free software,}
\item<2-> Permissive licensing \emph{enables} proprietary software
\lecture{but most of it is licensed under a permissive license---one
\lecture{but most of it is licensed under permissive licenses---one
of the most popular being the MIT~Expat license, which allows
for non-free derivatives. What this means is that
proprietary software authors have a relatively easy time
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easy. Don't open source~[sic] anything that represents core business
value.''
\end{quote}
\lecture{But what about the stuff that is truly innovative and valuable
enough that you consider it a core part of your business?
The stuff that the free software community needs to compete
with this ever-growing proprietary world? You keep it
hidden. And you suggest that others do the same.}
\lecture{But what about the stuff that the free software community needs
to compete with this ever-growing proprietary world? You
keep it hidden. And you suggest that others do the same.}
}
\end{frame}
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take a look at the community, we can see why:}
\begin{itemize}
\item<2-> Startups (e.g. YCombinator-funded)
\lecture{There are a lot of startups. Most new software startups
today are going to have some sort of online component. As
has already been discussed, the web is an attractive
platform, and an easy way to create lock-in---something that
many misguided startups and funders will consider to be vital
to their long-term success. For this to happen---for these
young startups to be able to get software out cheaply and
quickly with limited resources---they need free software. So
there is immense community pressure to create permissively
licensed software.}
\item<1-> Startups (e.g. YCombinator-funded)
\lecture{There are a lot of startups, and they recognize the Web as an
easy way to create lock-in---something that many misguided
startups and funders will consider to be vital to their
long-term success.}
\item<2-> New programmers, new culture
\lecture{And speaking of that community pressure---the web development
community is home to many new or inexperienced
programmers. Those programmers are immersed in a culture that
talks about ``rockstar'' and ``10x'' programmers; about
``brogrammers'' and ``hipster'' languages---these are very
different terms than hackers are used to, and highlight very
different concepts.}
\item <1-> Large corporations
\lecture{The Web is carried and advanced (tehcnologically) by large
and influential corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter,
GitHub, and others. All of them contribute to the free
software community. But all of them rob us of our freedoms.}
\item<1-> New programmers, new culture
\lecture{The web development community is home to many new or
inexperienced programmers. Those programmers are immersed in
a culture that talks about ``rockstar'' and ``10x''
programmers; about ``brogrammers'' and ``hipster''
languages---these are very different terms than hackers are
used to, and highlight very different concepts.}
\begin{itemize}
\item<3-> ``Open Source''
\item<2-> ``Open Source''
\lecture{Importantly, they focus on
\emph{methodology}---performance, producing something
that is cool and will be accepted by your peers. This is
not a focus on freedom.}
\item<3-> ``Copyleft'' is a dirty word
\item<2-> ``Copyleft'' is a dirty word
\lecture{``Copyleft'' is a dirty word: if you want to be accepted
by your peers, you'd better license your libraries
permissively. If you don't, someone's either going to
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shunned.}
\end{itemize}
\item<4-> Peer pressure
\item<3-> Peer pressure
\lecture{And besides, all your friends are doing it, and they're all
10x rockstars!}
\end{itemize}
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fighting copyleft, without actually bringing up the issue,
thereby creating a large community that works against
copyleft without actually \emph{thinking} about
copyleft. This is very dangerous.}
copyleft. This is very dangerous, and this is the culture
driving the web.}
\end{center}
\lecture{And as of last month, we even have a term describing this broad
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\end{center}
\lecture{All this focus on copyleft is good and all---if only it were the
solution to all of our problems. But we have a whole Web of
problems to deal with. Freedom is only as good as your ability
to exercise it.}
solution to all of our problems. Freedom is only as good as your
ability to exercise it.}
\end{frame}
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\item But is all of it free?
\begin{itemize}
\item Certain things may look free, or have free components
(e.g. the ubiquitous jQuery)
\lecture{But how do we know that a program is fully free? Let's
draw a comparison with traditional binaries. How do you
know it's fully free? Well, you rely in part on
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\item<1-> Where can I find the corresponding source?
\lecture{The other requirement is the corresponding source code. We
should be able to build it ourselves, host it ourselves, and
expect to have the same functionality. And we should be able
to audit the distributed code and correlate it with the
original sources. And guess what---I found a small amount of
non-free code missing from the Reddit repository. Very
small, and it just screws with the user by moving elements
around the page if they have some cursed flag set, but
non-free nonetheless.}
expect to have the same functionality.}
\item<2-> Minified code is not source code!
\lecture{I have personally had people counter my argument in the past
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\end{verbatim}
\lecture{This is a snippet of jQuery's minified sources for an 'add'
method. Real quick---what do each of those arguments mean? What
does this function do?}
\lecture{This is an example of minified code---a snippet of jQuery's
minified sources for an 'add' method. Real quick---what do each
of those arguments mean? What does this function do?
Minification is used even with free software for performance
reasons---smaller file sizes, smaller load times.}
\end{frame}