Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

#DuckDuckFedi: what would be a good, concise term for "grassroots initiatives to build alternative social structures founded on radical principles, focusing on the 'building up' and mutual social support part rather than the 'tearing down' part?"

I'm looking for something less specific than 'mutual aid', also encompassing the somewhat more abstract and semi-centralized movements, but not including institutional efforts.

#Anarchism

(If they give you some evasive non-answer about how it 'depends' and they've never talked about mutual aid before, the answer is most likely "zero", by the way)

@Deiru Right, but it is very possible that Sony set this (transferring patent rights) as a requirement to fund the game's development at all.

That doesn't mean there's no ethical implications of saying yes to that, of course, but it is very different from "Kojima patented this thing" - and given how common these sorts of clauses are, you can't necessarily assume that Kojima was aware of the *extent* of the patents that would be filed, for example.

Normalize asking your well-off friends at prestigious tech companies what their mutual aid budget is

@Deiru Patent portal is not working for me at the moment so I can't check, but various sources seem to suggest that the patent was filed by Sony, rather than Kojima?

There are lots of *practical* reasons why proprietary and commercial environments aren't really capable of producing innovation, but those are not the ones I want to focus on here.

The bigger reason why proprietary systems cannot be innovative is more philosophical. "Innovation", to me, is a very specific thing: it is the collective process of discovering and iterating on new techniques and technologies, to make society a little better for everyone every time.

The "iterating on" is important there; innovation is about *collective knowledge building*, about improving humanity's collective understanding of the world in a durable and sustainable way, and ensuring that those who come after us can build on our work to improve a little further.

Proprietary systems, by their very nature, cannot do this. "Innovations" in proprietary systems will live and die with the organizations in which they are built; the knowledge of their workings is secret and deliberately obscured, practically guaranteeing a loss of knowledge when the organization eventually folds - as every organization does sooner or later.

Proprietary organizations simply do not participate in the process of innovation at all; they *emulate* it, as a cheap party trick to impress investors and accumulate more power, economic or otherwise.

For something to be truly innovative, it *must* happen in the open, no exceptions. If others outside of your control cannot iterate on it, it is not truly innovation, no matter how clever it sounds.

The only DRM I could get behind is a limiter on gasoline powertools that only allows you to rev them a set amount of times before they lock up for the rest of the day, jesus christ

@laurentoget @vkc If that's what it ends up taking to maintain a functional internet, then yes. But thankfully the internet backbones are generally in a much better place than the major web companies are.