[Link] More Software Isn't Better Software

Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com

Last month, Eugen Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.

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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.

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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public

Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com

Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.

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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.

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