
Perfect mindset to get into negotiations for a wage slave position with corporate. And even better all those undergrad engineers learn to keep their mouth shut, fall in line and never dare to argue against the social contract. So this is big tech trying to get rid of all the counter-culture ideologues so the FOSS communities can be ruled by docile councils of pushovers that offer no resistance against turning FOSS into feature incomplete community editions packed with telemetry and designed to harvest free work from young people eager to raise the value of their curriculum vitae. It will instead pressure any workers union to sign away all intellectual property rights the law allows and agree with denying the consumers every right that can be denied, arguing only then slave wages can match bread prices and every bit of idealism is going to take away from that. Between the workers and the consumers a "right to reverse engineer" or a "right to repair" could be agreeable, but business is not going to let that happen.

The contracts on both ends of the value chain are dictated by the corporation. Wage slaves sign away exclusive rights to megacorporations and those do not negotiate licensing contracts with individual human consumers either. I agree with your ideal of the freedom of contract in principle, but that only exists between equals. > proprietary licensing agreements + a broader anti-freedom assault I wish I could have prevented the misunderstanding." But many people now believe I defended him-and other inaccurate claims-and feel a real hurt because of what they believe I said. I've called a 'serial rapist,' and said he deserved to be imprisoned. "Nothing could be further from the truth. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that,"

"Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm her psychologically.

"We know that Giuffre was being coerced into sex – by Epstein. I believe there is a significant chilling effect in regards to speaking out in the defense of Richard Stallman, a man who has never been convicted of a crime, and who in response to the allegations in the open letter has said things such as:
