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Name: Anonymous 2014-01-27 19:08

We should create a club/lodge for programmers. If stonemasons created one many years ago just because they knew how to carve stupid stones and build some basic structures, why we still don't have one?
This is what we need:
A symbol.
A secret handshake.
A set of rules.
An unknown leader.
An unknown sub-leader.
A library with exceptional computer books, a printed version of world4ch's /prog/ (aka The Old Testament), ancient computers, and other relics.
A list of heretic languages carved in stone.

Name: Anonymous 2014-01-28 2:59

>>14
Giving away software is itself a political act, and besides that it's a blunt instrument. We can do more by requiring that (at least corporate) customers contribute to our cause by paying for our work. I don't feel that this is political, but if you do, I would rather drop or limit the apolitical requirement than lose the ability to charge companies, for whom I have no particular regard, for the fruits of our labor.
I understand. Not making corporate customers pay for the fruits of our labour would be unfair to ourselves. However, I feel it would contradict our prime objective if we didn't make the source to the software we produce available for all to study and audit. So how about this:
- non-commercial non-governmental users may freely (without any payment) study, redistribute, modify, and execute the software we make for educational and personal not-for-profit things
- everyone else must pay for it (of course, they can study/audit it (which would help computer security) but they can't actually use it without payment)

Is there one concrete thing you could think of to make it happen?
Design and manufacture an understandable (and auditable!) computer like >>13 said.

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