• Exocrinous@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Things I am in favour of conserving:

    The environment
    Multigenerational family structures
    Indigenous sovereignty
    Oral traditions
    Unions
    Technological progress
    Trans rights
    Historical records
    Mythologies and religions
    Pagan traditions
    The Palestinian people
    Ukraine
    Civil rights advances
    Abandonware and lost media
    Indigenous holy sites
    Native species

    I want to conserve lots of stuff. Am I a conservative?

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        1 year ago

        Oh, abandonware is political. The software is lost because distribution rights lied solely with the copyright holder. The abandonware we still have available for distribution today is what was pirated. Obviously, copyright is antithetical to software preservation.

        A capitalist argument on the subject of software copyright goes “the right to distribute software is owned by a company or a businessman because they invested in that software. They have the right to control what they own. If they decide the software is no longer available for distribution, it should be lost.”

        But a communist argument on the subject of software says “the means of producing wealth by distributing software should belong to everyone. The people should seize software distribution for themselves and use it for the common good. Pirate software to preserve it, it shouldn’t matter that a corporation doesn’t want to sell it anymore.”

        As a communist, I believe in the conservative approach to software copyright.

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            1 year ago

            How are pirates supposed to get copies of software that’s already been abandoned so they can distribute it?

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                1 year ago

                Yeah, but that’s not the nature of how software is distributed these days. Do you have a modern solution?

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                    That’s relying on big government to solve our problems for us. And that’s not a reliable strategy when big business wants those problems to stick around so they can make us buy more new crap. Piracy is a solution that we, the people, can implement right now.

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      1 year ago

      Conservatives are not a monolith.

      That said, “Indigenous sovereignty” is very right wing. Welcome!