Normie thinking and Bitcoin thinking are fundamentally incompatible. People in Bitcoin businesses are experiencing a sharp dichotomy between the world of the normie and the world of Bitcoin, in organizations trying to come to grips with the power of this new and very powerful messaging network, and how to exploit it to onboard new users. If companies try to use Bitcoin by its nature, they immediately collide head on with this prickly dichotomy, especially if they’re burdened by an ignorant, computer illiterate “Compliance Department”, staffed with refugees from the anti-matter Twilight Zone Bankster Dimension. They want to know who is sending what messages on the network in every instance, but the tools they build, constructed by genius developers, make this impossible unless they “break Bitcoin” by violating the most basic elements and requirements of utility. Companies trying to style themselves in the Ethical Bitcoin, or “HODL” mold are staffed by people who are confronted with this thorny dichotomy directly, causing them to enter into paroxysms of doublethink. On the one hand, they are tasked with providing tools that allow people to use Bitcoin “properly”, but on the other, they can’t countenance or accept at face value how things actually work in Bitcoin. They offer the ability for users to create Bitcoin addresses at will and then receive Bitcoin “on” those addresses, but simultaneously want to know who is sending Bitcoin to those addresses. They’ve unwittingly opened Pandora’s box, or a gateway directly to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole, and are desperate to put that box, that portal, into another box, or put that other box into a room inside a gated community where there is a policewoman at every window and entrance. It’s completely absurd. The reality is this; you cannot run an Ethical Bitcoin company that is “True to Bitcoin” or that maintains privacy and abstains from spying on your users and also want all the controls and surveillance that comes with Unethical Bitcoin. The two universes are not compatible, they are matter and anti-matter touching. They are mutually exclusive, and wanting them to comingle is 100% irrational, and in the long run, it cannot possibly work. Because Bitcoin is math, there are effectively no possible gatekeepers for the billions of people who have calculators at hand. Anyone can generate Bitcoin addresses and send messages on the network. Because this is true, all gestures designed to placate double digit IQ types are the worst and most embarrasing folly. As I’ve written before, it is inevitable that all Bitcoin in circulation will be two things; “Non KYC” and “Tainted”. https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88 https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c Normies are going to have to adapt to Bitcoin, not the other way around, just as they did with BitTorrent. If one company refuses to capitulate, another will arise, and then another and another, until the battle is won. This is now absolutely inevitable, and fighting against it is completely irrational, pointless and stupid. No one who can think accepts the pretexts, pretenses, pettiness, pathetic and pointless garbage trotted out by people from the “Crypto Compliance” world. Their world is dying and the Bitcoin world is the invasive species out competing every weed in their overgrown and nutrient starved pest infested Victory Garden. You can’t run from this. You must either embrace and accept Bitcoin at face value on its terms, or you will be out-competed by others who are not self sabotaging, weak minded, brainwashed cowards and non Anglo-Saxon salary addicts. Fiatjaf, the person who created Nostr created a good example of this dynamic. Nostr doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be the perfect example of what is going to happen with Bitcoin services. Someone is going to write a Bitcoin client or service that changes everything, and which puts forth a proposition that billions will easily accept and consume unquestioned. This novel protocol that spawns clients will not be run by cowards, corporate types, cretins, creeps, creatures or delusionistas, dullards, dimwits, dope, or dummies…or other things. It will, all of a sudden, change everything. You can do and say whatever you want; you cannot stop the inevitable from taking place. The only real choice you have is to be the hero or the villain, the hero or the loser, the champion or the defeated, the man of destiny or the chump. That’s about it!

The German Credit Card Network went down, and that’s sad. However… It is simply not true to say, “Bitcoin Fixes This”. Bitcoin cannot fix anything by itself. Building businesses on Bitcoin fixes problems, not talking about Bitcoin. Building businesses that make it trivially easy to get and use Bitcoin is what fixes problems. That means businesses like Azteco to deliver Bitcoin to people everywhere on earth instantly and pain free. That means wallets like Wallet of Satoshi, Green Address, Samourai Wallet, Bitkey, Foundation, Proton Wallet and Blue Wallet. The combination of these Bitcoin services are what will change the world, not tinkering at the edges, endlessly iterating over tools no one can use, or launching new, UX Development free “wallets” that are hostile to users. The days of Bitcoin Theory must come to an end, replaced by Bitcoin Action. Bitcoin Action means making tools that are human centric, not Bitcoin Centric. Bitcoin is for human beings not the other way around. That’s how the real world works. That’s how you change the world. Money is not managed in “Communities”, and money is not a Cult either. Money is in fact a very private, individual thing, and people only cede this because they get security or utility. It’s why people put cash in banks and not under mattresses…the sane ones that is. The appalling lack of urgency, lack of empathy, lack of seriousness, lack of exposure, lack of knowledge, the duvet ducking, the parochial over focus, the ignorance, bad assumptions, lack of insight, cloistering and cowardice would be a real cause for concern were it not for what’s coming. What is coming are many people, using Bitcoin on a non cult basis, for Saving, Sending and Spending. Bitcoin is going to be normalized, and re-contextualized to account for its nature, not the position of THE CULT. The British Government has taken it upon itself to classify “Crypto” (Which excludes Bitcoin obviously) as “Personal Property” This is of course, utterly ABSURD.

What they are claiming is that if you roll a dice 50 times and write down the result, that that random number is your PROPERTY. It’s so monumentally stupid it beggars belief that anyone could make a claim like this aloud. Even the dullard ChatGPT knows calling random strings “Private Property” is crazy:

Whether a randomly generated number can be classed as private property is a complex legal question that involves considerations of intellectual property law, privacy law, and the nature of numbers. 1. Intellectual Property Law: • Copyright: Copyright law generally does not protect individual numbers, as they are considered facts or ideas, which are not subject to copyright. Copyright protects original expressions, not the underlying facts or ideas themselves. Therefore, a randomly generated number, by itself, would not be protected under copyright law.
 • Patents: A randomly generated number could potentially be part of a patented process or system (e.g., in cryptography), but the number itself would not be patentable. Patents protect inventions and processes, not isolated data like numbers.
 • Trade Secrets: If a randomly generated number is part of a confidential business process (like an encryption key), it could be protected as a trade secret, provided it meets the requirements of confidentiality and economic value. 2. Privacy Law: • If a randomly generated number is associated with an individual’s personal data or is used to secure access to private information (e.g., as a password or encryption key), it might be considered private information. Unauthorized access to or distribution of such a number could potentially be seen as a violation of privacy rights. 3. Ownership and Property Law: • For something to be considered private property, it generally needs to be something that can be owned, controlled, or exclusively possessed by an individual or entity. A randomly generated number, unless it’s tied to a specific legal or contractual context (e.g., a lottery ticket number or a cryptographic key), would typically not be considered private property. In summary, while a randomly generated number on its own is unlikely to be classed as private property, it could be considered private or protected under certain circumstances, such as when it is part of a confidential business process, personal data, or a proprietary system. The context in which the number is used and the legal framework surrounding that context would determine whether it can be protected as private property. And in case you didn’t know, Pi, which is infinite, contains all possible numbers, including all possible Bitcoin keys. To say that someone “owns” a string in Pi, is as absurd as saying someone owns 3.14. Only a crazy, illiterate, enumerate person would make such a claim… But here we are! In a desperate move to engineer relevance in the growing “Crypto” (Bitcoin) space, the British Government is simply making things up, on the mistaken belief that “Bitcoin needs Regulation”, which it absolutely does not. Many new and interesting things are coming, and you, surely, will be entertained and thrilled by it all. Right, right right?

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Nation-wide disruptions of Germany credit card network. Bitcoin fixes this.

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The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving licese. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare. You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally. The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there. There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament. By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'. Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution. Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account. Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database. This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face. Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it. The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card. The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money. If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on. Frances Stonor Saunders

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"Quick Maffs". https://medium.com/@beautyon_/the-double-thinking-double-talk-of-double-minded-double-crossers-5ea558bbbbb1

“HEXAGONAL”.

“We’re going to have the gavel put own on them”.

“NICO”

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Miss El Salvador buying Bitcoin with cash at 7-Eleven in Mexico City using @Azteco_

“NICO”

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Miss El Salvador buying Bitcoin with cash at 7-Eleven in Mexico City using @Azteco_

The American Founding Fathers knew that the ability to publish freely and anonymously was key to having robust dialogue. If it is the case that there is a price for speeking your mind, no one will risk spoiling their reputation, free speech is supressed, and groupthink grows like cancer. The people who think groupthink and consensus are good things are invariably the milquetoast class who have nothing to say about anything; they are bland, uncreative basement dwelling Duvet Ducking, insipid losers who are no fun. These people use terms like "Ragebait" because they can’t stand the fact that psychologically normal people are outraged by evil. They would rather not hear about the bad things going on in the world, and this marries perfectly with the Nostr mentality of running away and hiding from the world, rather than trying to fix it by direct action. People who tell uncomfortable truths like Alex Jones have hundreds of billions of views precisely because he is telling the truth and perfectly expressing and reflecting people's outrage. This is a good thing, and the world would be a much worse thing had Alex Jones not been publishing and broadcasting. The most valuable part in Social Media is not "credibility" in the sense that people like you; it is that you tell the truth consistently and accurately. To believe that "positive" (read non aggressive, "smooth things" that don't upset anyone), anodyne platitudes and empty slogans and generic inoffensive undefined "content" is extreme infantilism. And it’s BORING. On Nostr, your reputation is tied to long term keys. This is a terrible thing. It is no different to the totalitarians wanting everyone on the internet to be required to have a government ID, so that speech can be policed. The exact same arguments against anonymity being made by Noster fanatics about "Ragebait" are what the EU and anti free speech fascists make; that requiring ID will "tone things down". Great company youre in there, Nostr fan. Here is one example of the bad company Nostr people are keeping: "UK government ministers and MPs have floated the idea of requiring social media users to verify their identity in an effort to curb online abuse and promote more polite interactions. For instance, Siobhan Baillie, a Conservative MP, introduced a Private Members’ Bill in 2021, which proposed that social media platforms should offer a user identity verification process. This would allow users to choose whether to verify their identities and give them the option to interact only with verified accounts. The goal was to address the issue of anonymous trolling and abuse that has become prevalent online. The proposal was part of a broader discussion about online safety, particularly in relation to the UK’s Online Safety Bill. The debate highlighted concerns over anonymous online behavior, which often leads to increased levels of harassment, disinformation, and other harmful activities. While the idea of mandatory ID verification was not fully endorsed by the government, it has sparked significant discussion about how to balance online anonymity with accountability" The more you look into it, Nostr in its current form, within a section of its current crop of users is a festering nest of censorship loving people who want “Identity to post” through the back door, so they can have a Telletubbies Twitter where no one can say bad things or NO ZAPS FOR TOMMY. These people are probably for World Government, ID Cards, and all the other totalitarian garbage imaginable. Yes yes, "Not all Nostr users..." BLAH BLAH BLAH. Have a nice day, NostrTubbies!

On the hypocrisy of Yacarino:

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Why exactly is it a "sad day"? Aren't you the person who introduced the noxious and anti-American idea of "Freedom of Speech, Not Reach"? Brazil i...

Elon is correct in the ent in his Tweet. Brazilians are under no obligation to obey foreign laws, just as Americans are not obligated to obey foreign laws. Andrew Torba is way ahead of Elon in this. Elon is also at liberty to publish secret documents about Brazilian government corruption; that is his right. Is Elon about to become the next Julian Assange? I doubt it. Having said all of this, Elon doesn't seem to be able to make the connection between government censorship and Bitcoin. Bitcoin is "Censorship Resistant Money". If you look at Bitcoin through this lens, it is obvious that adding Bitcoin to X would have been a genius move. Not only would Bitcoin solve the problem of Starlink having its accounts frozen but would have many beneficial effects on a global scale. The ability of any government anywhere to sanction or block payments to and from X and Starlink users would be eliminated. Overnight, X would become the most important (and largest) financial institution the world has ever seen, and it would be a tremendous force for good. The billions of unbanked people would suddenly be able to save, send and spend money; an unprecedented event with multiple order effects that no one can fully grasp. In the long and short term, Bitcoin is good for Elon and good for everyone on Earth who believes in Democracy. Why then, does Elon shun this manifestly obvious checkmate move? Andrew Torba of Gab has partially embraced Bitcoin. Jack Dorsey has gone 100% Bitcoin with Bitkey. David Marcus has gone 100% Bitcoin. How is it that Elon cannot see this? How is it that he thinks Bitcoin is a joke? Your guess is as good as mine.

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We willl begin publishing the long list of @Alexandre’s crimes, along with the specific Brazilian laws that he broke tomorrow. Obviously, he do...

Look at the "crimes" Durov is charged with. Providing cryptology tools not solely for ensuring authentication without prior declaration (a license) Complicity in... Complicity inWeb-mastering an online platform Complicity in Carrying messages for others. Criminal association and conspiracy to commit crimes. These charges capture every platform imaginable, fron Gmail, to every Apple device and service, all of which are end-to-end encrypted. These charges are completely insane, and every CEO of every web based tool is guilty of them, because encryption is ubiquitous. As I said

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CEOs of the world should be very concerned with the arrest of Pavel Durov. If Durov can be snatched off of his private jet, all CEOs are at risk o...

every CEO of a software company is threatened by this, and they should ALL immediately call for the unconditional dropping of the charges and release of Durov in 24hrs or face an immediate blockade of France. Literally ANY CEO CAN BE THREATENED IN THE EU. https://x.com/tom_dobbels/status/1828127518429454744

CEOs of the world should be very concerned with the arrest of Pavel Durov. If Durov can be snatched off of his private jet, all CEOs are at risk of arbitrary arrest when they travel. It should be clear, even to the democracy loving sycophant CEOs, that the current situation is intolerable, and that something must be done. There isn't a precise, universally agreed-upon number of CEOs worldwide, as this can vary based on how "CEO" is defined and the types of organizations considered (public companies, private companies, non-profits, etc.). However, some estimates can be made based on the number of businesses globally. According to the World Bank and other sources, there are over 300 million companies globally. While not all of these companies will have a traditional CEO (especially very small businesses), it gives a rough idea of the scale. Many medium to large enterprises will have a CEO or equivalent position. Therefore, it is reasonable to estimate that there are tens of millions of individuals holding the title of CEO or an equivalent leadership role across the world. The exact number would be difficult to pinpoint due to the wide variety of organizations and titles used in different regions and industries. The arrest of Pavel Durov is a direct threat to every CEO on earth. It is obvious that there are more CEOs than there are government ministers, and since these CEOs control all industries on earth, they have the actual power, not the State. It is clear that a world-wide strike and withholding of services from all governments as a warning to stop the rise of totalitarianism is the minimum that should be launched in response to the arrest of Pavel Durov. Perhaps if this is done once, what I propose next may not be needed. Governments can do nothing without the CEOs facilitating their measures. The ID Cards, websites and every other service the State provides are actually done by companies under contract, each with CEOs, not by governments themselves. If all CEOs decide as one that enough is enough, it’s over for the totalitarians, because they can’t even make a phone call without a CEO facilitating it. A new "Chief Executives Alliance for Global Equity and Stability" (CEASE) made up of the CEOs of the world should, as its first act, work to outlaw arbitrary arrest of any citizen, so that another Durov outrage cannot happen. CEASE will have no legislative power, but that doesn’t matter; what matters is that they can withhold services to entire nations to ensure democratically elected leaders do not violate the rights of citizens, starting with CEOs. Does this sound like WEF 2.0? Sadly, it does, but CEASE, working in the open to protect the rights of people would be quite different to the sinister and secretive WEF. Its aims are explicitly for freedom; freedom of speech, freedom to travel legally without fear of arbitrary arrest, and the freedom to trade with others in goods and services on the basis of voluntarism. Julian Assange would not have suffered as he did had CEASE existed when he leaked the secret criminal shenanigans of the State. CEASE, having no legislative power, has only one means of action at its disposal; withdrawal of services. This might not seem like much, but it is in fact an extremely powerful sanction. Imagine if the CEOs of Facebook, X, Google and Apple all decided to go dark until Durov is released. Billions of people would be affected. No government on earth has ever had that much power. Arresting a CEO for running their business where people can speak freely could never result in an arrest in a world where CEASE existed. The price to the State would be too high; and of course, in this case, it would be France that is shut down and crippled as the very fabric of their modern world is rug pulled from under them. They would rightly calculate that it’s just not worth it. Arresting a CEO would only be done when it is actually justified like cases of; murder, theft, and other such crimes where there is a clear victim. Obviously this is a sketch outline of a very big idea, and if the part of your brain that powers your imagination is working and exercised, it should make you go, “hmmmmmmm!”. One thing is for sure; sitting by watching people be hauled off to the camps should not be tolerable for anyone, CEO or not. And lest you believe that something like this would end up creating a “Rollerball” style dystopia, remember, the consumer is more powerful as a constituency than all the CEOs and their companies combined. Ask Harley Davidson, or the owners of Bud Light, Ratner’s, and others… 1. Lehman Brothers (financial crisis and public backlash) 2. Barings Bank (collapsed after a rogue trader scandal, followed by public loss of confidence) 3. Ratners Group (renamed to Signet Group after the CEO's derogatory comments about its products led to a massive boycott) 4. Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) (decline due to a combination of factors including boycotts after the Lockerbie bombing) 5. Arthur Andersen (collapsed after the Enron scandal, leading to a boycott and loss of clients) One of the problems this idea faces that immediately comes to mind is the diversity of CEOs. Some of them are not liberty minded. This is where boycotts by the public may help exert some measure of balance. Either way, Durov being arrested is unacceptable, intolerable and unjustifiable, and unless you want to have your own “oh how we burned in the camps”moment, you had better consider this idea very carefully.

The founder of Telegram has been kidnapped. Why don't they (the EU States) in this case, arrest the CEO of Apple and Samsung or Google, for people using browsers and phones in the commission of crimes? Or ISPs or anyone else transmitting data? No one can answer this, because Ambulance Chasers are Computer Illiterates. This question touches Bitcoin of course, and will have profound effects if the people who make these bad decisions are not re-educated and their ignorance neutralized. The CEOs of Bitcoin companies must assert the truth of how things work at all times to defend not only their businesses but their hundreds of millions of users.

The great and the good are waking up. I’ve had it admitted to me today in private that, “The Laser Eye movement is a dead end.” This is significant. It has always been true that the death of the Bitcoin Cult was inevitable. The Cult was like a, “Universal Basic Income of software”; unsustainable, uneconomic, irrational, hyperbolic and infantile. This doesn’t mean that Bitcoin is dead, obviously; the contrary is the case. Bitcoin is about to experience a multi front boom of the kind very few people have the capacity to conceive of. Wallet download numbers are going to explode. Ubiquitous non Exchange retail Bitcoin delivery is about to appear. The “Consumer Bitcoin” era is upon you. It’s going to be…EMOTIONAL.

An entire generation of potentially capable people have been brainwashed into accepting feelings as a substitute for substance. These people can’t solve problems and are “Great Masturbators”, that can’t solve problems, interact with consumers or measure their own performance. These people are breaking off into a parallel society where people don’t measure their the value of their workers or themselves.

Complaining about something is not the same as doing something about something.

Open source and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) have roots going back several decades, although the concepts evolved over time. Here's a brief timeline of their development: 1. Early Foundations (1950s-1970s): - In the early days of computing, during the 1950s and 1960s, software was often shared freely among researchers and developers. Software came bundled with hardware, and source code was openly distributed. - The sharing of software was common in academic and research settings, particularly within the ARPANET community (the precursor to the internet). - In 1969, the creation of UNIX at AT&T's Bell Labs became significant because, although initially proprietary, its widespread academic use led to the development of a collaborative culture in software development. 2. GNU Project and Free Software Foundation (1983-1985): - In 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project, aiming to create a free Unix-like operating system. This project laid the foundation for the Free Software Movement. - In 1985, Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to support the movement and promote the idea that software should be free to use, modify, and distribute. 3. The Term "Open Source" (1998): - Although the practices of open sharing and collaboration were already in place, the term "open source" was coined in 1998 by Christine Peterson as part of an effort to rebrand free software to make it more appealing to businesses. - The Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded the same year by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond to promote the use of the term "open source" and to certify open-source licenses. 4. Rise of Popular Open Source Projects (Late 1990s-Present): - Throughout the late 1990s and into the 2000s, major open-source projects like Linux, Apache HTTP Server, and Mozilla gained traction, showcasing the success of the open-source model. - The development of platforms like GitHub (founded in 2008) further accelerated the open-source movement by providing a collaborative environment for developers to share and contribute to projects. In summary: - The principles underlying open source and FOSS have existed since the early days of computing in the 1950s and 1960s. - The formalization of the Free Software Movement began with the GNU Project in 1983. - The term "open source" was coined in 1998 to promote and standardize the practices of collaborative software development. So, open source and FOSS have been in existence, in various forms, for around 70 years, with more formalized movements and terms emerging in the last 40 years. For 40 years FOSS people have not cared about design; in fact, they’ve been openly hostile to it. Desktop system authors used to refuse to produce screenshots for users, insisting that they compile and run the code if they want to see anything running. That’s the mentality you’re dealing with. And simply calling for something won’t make it happen; this is the magical thinking rife in communities who don’t know how to solve problems or deal with real people. And when the scant few try to work with designers and get quotes for work, they scoff at the cost, saying “anyone could do this”. They’re pig ignorant, philistines, stubborn and un cultured. They will never win!

Today, the artist with the most intelligent thing to say about ChatGPT is Mark E. Smith.