 If you think of free software as a developers' rights issue, it's a solved problem. Developers can use free stacks everywhere, and they are free to fix anything. Nobody is legally restricted from learning to be a developer. There's a pretty good live ecosystem. Mission accomplished. If you think of free software as a human rights issue, you need to think about how all people can actually use and benefit, and usability and accessibility and localisation all become integral parts of the problem. 13 comments
 @utopiah @derwinmcgeary You also need powerful hardware for phone development, that's an accessibility issue in a way too, because may people don't have the money. I agree though that usability, accessibility & internationalisation (so that we can do proper localisation) still need improving. The big gap here is developer training. I have lost count how often I had to explain that "likes your post" is not a valid string to translate & how plural forms work in languages that are unlike English. @utopiah @derwinmcgeary The Lynx may be better than the others but it isn't open source and its hardware designs are based on proprietary chips. This is simply unacceptable for a device that sits between our senses and the world. @trevorfsmith @derwinmcgeary indeed plus it doesn't exist yet... I mean I'm still waiting for it! Yet... I mention it because, at least AFAIK, it'd the "least worst" XR HMD commercially available (maybe) on that front. I mentioned it before but I'd love to see @PINE64 HMD but nothing in the pipelines. @utopiah @derwinmcgeary @PINE64 Yes, they sent a survey to customers a few weeks ago and asked what they should make next. Of course I wrote that they should make a HMD that boots into Wolvic. 😸  > Nobody is legally restricted from learning to be a developer. There's a pretty good live ecosystem. Mission accomplished. except, people from Iran are restricted from using GitHub and Docker Hub probably more than just Iran  full ack - but it is about any user and not only devs. The term “world wide web” is totally misleading (!) given the current netblocks and considering the “state DNS” where Chinas population is equivalent to 18.47% of the total world population and the “issues” in Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia etc. / @onepict free software has, from the beginning, been about the rights of /users/. people mostly think of it in terms of devs because most of the users of software that know enough about how software works and is made to care are themselves involved in that making I'm confused as to how free software can be a HR issue. Like commons licences are offending Microsoft or wtf? Got it, yes I was thinking where that would fit into the HRA and copyright law etc but you make good points. |
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@derwinmcgeary I'd argue that even "just" for developers there aren't free stacks everywhere. In a lot of places yet but in VR for example we're still waiting for the Lynx who "should" be properly open, not stuck in an unrootable Android like the Meta Quest 2. This sounds niche but... what about what we all have in our pockets, mobile phones? Well until recently through e.g PinePhone we had Android (possibly deGoogled) or iOS or... non "smart" phones. It is slowly changing but I feel like trivializing the challenge of having "free" stacks (and I won't touch on proprietary drivers or firmwares) is a bit of shortcut.
@derwinmcgeary I'd argue that even "just" for developers there aren't free stacks everywhere. In a lot of places yet but in VR for example we're still waiting for the Lynx who "should" be properly open, not stuck in an unrootable Android like the Meta Quest 2. This sounds niche but... what about what we all have in our pockets, mobile phones? Well until recently through e.g PinePhone we had Android (possibly deGoogled) or iOS or... non "smart" phones. It is slowly changing but I feel like trivializing...