Rant about the world of social media and marketing:
My latest (very recent) shock was receiving an email from a digital painting software company (I can't name them) asking me my price to switch my entire workflow to their proprietary product and announce it on my channels.
Of course I refused.
I'm still 100% committed to Free/Libre&Open-Source Software. But it made me realise that these days even profiles without a huge internet presence are getting paid to use and advocate things. Meh 😔
@davidrevoy@fell That doesn't hold any legal ground and makes the company sound all the more alarming for stating false threats. But you could use the traditional route of "contracted artists" and leak it to a few trusted peers who can forward it as "heard from an aquinstance", people deserve to know about the bad apples that spoil the bunch.
Last April, I left my Twitter account, but without deleting it, to keep more than 10 years of posts for archiving (tutorials, brushes, threads, etc...). I also wanted to occupy the namespace to avoid seeing an account doing impersonation. Then I uninstalled the app, stopped reading my TL, and put all this in the background...
But when a friend told me yesterday that it was a good thing I had left Tw early, I felt bad that I still had that dormant account.
🐧 I wrote a new blog entry listing all the changes I made to turn the Lenovo Yoga 370 into my mobile GNU/Linux digital painting device. It's long because it contains detailed instructions for beginners. I hope it is helpful.
"The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms" → so you can't privatize or lock it. You can sell it as Bidgehop wrote, I'm fine with this.
Regarding agreeing on art display to serve the opinions of someone else or not; the license also requests "You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use." So reusing doesn't mean I endorse the talk, etc...