{"title": "Help Us Hack The Software Industry!!!", "timestamp": 1732657600, "description": "To Free Windows we need to use GNU / Linux.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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[source](https://linuxreviews.org/Notes_for_linux_release_0.01#2._Copyrights_etc) ) and was relicensed to the GPLv2-ambigious in 1992; [source](https://web.archive.org/web/20110721105526/https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.12)\r\n\r\nLinux was made proprietary again in 1996 via the inclusion of the first proprietary program disguised as an array of numbers; [source](https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/)\r\n\r\nIt took Linus until 2000 to clarify that he meant GPLv2-only; [source](https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.1/0096.html)\r\n\r\n>Visual Studio Code, their text editor from Microsoft is mostly Free Software\r\nIt's 100% proprietary, as binaries of vscode are released under a proprietary license that forbids reverse engineering; [source](https://code.visualstudio.com/license)\r\n \r\nThey have separately released what they claim to be the source code under MIT expat \r\n\r\n```\r\ngit clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode\r\n```\r\n, but it doesn't appear to correspond as per this sentence; \"Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license.\"\r\n\r\nIt appears that microsoft has done what they usually do and have added spyware and malware and of course has tried to make it illegal to reverse engineer it and find the malware; \r\n- \"Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft.\"\r\n- \"You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software except and solely to the extent required by third party licensing terms governing use of certain open source components that may be included in the software;\"\r\n\r\nIdeally you could avoid that by just compiling the sources, but actually getting it to compile appears to require many hours of work by several people looking at the vscodium project; \r\n\r\n```\r\ngit clone https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\n>They are designed to run anything. Any computation can be done. Any digital information can be processed in any way what so ever. All you need to do is to tell the computer how to do it. And it will!\r\n>We can always tell the computer to do something ourselves.\r\nUnfortunately, many computers now have digital handcuffs in them that causes the computer to disobey the users commands, meaning that there is no guarantee that the computer will do what you tell it to, even if you tell it how to do it correctly.\r\n\r\nIntel CPUs after 2008 will not even make it to code execution without proprietary init software executed on the ME and even if you were to write a replacement program that does the job, the ME would refuse to execute it, as that wouldn't pass a RSA signature check (Intel, the NSA, Mossad and other parties probably have the RSA private key(s), while you don't (Intel mainly operates in the USA and Israel and if either government demands private keys, Intel has to hand them over and realistically they have done so long ago)).\r\n\r\nIntel CPUs from 2008 and before are fine, as those do not have digital handcuffs and many intel systems from that time are supported with 100% free software; [source](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/docs/hardware/)\r\n\r\nAMD processors after seemingly 2015 have the same issue with the PSP, but the details are lacking, even then, certain pre-PSP AMD systems are very good and very stable; [source](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/docs/hardware/kgpe-d16.html)\r\n\r\nOf course, past hardware init, there are many different kinds of handcuffing mechanisms implemented and upcoming to ensure that what should be your computer doesn't obey your orders.\r\n\r\n\r\nAlthough it is difficult, thankfully you can still get computers that will obey your instructions, with fast CPUs and ample RAM; [source](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/docs/hardware/#serversworkstations-amd-x86)\r\n\r\n", "username": "\u7fe0\u661f\u77f3"}, {"text": "This Article was inspired by a conversation with @Uriel_Cohen .", "username": "blenderdumbass"}]}, "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/Help_Us_Hack_The_Software_Industry", "hashtags": ["FreeSoftware", "UserFreedom", "Privacy", "GNU", "Linux", "OpenSource"]}