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Rather than edit a case, it's better to write a new one that is more general or more specific. Make the cases very specific or very general, but stick to things you think really can happen. If you think they can't happen, they are [[threats]], and document them anyway, since ''someone'' thinks they can happen. | Rather than edit a case, it's better to write a new one that is more general or more specific. Make the cases very specific or very general, but stick to things you think really can happen. If you think they can't happen, they are [[threats]], and document them anyway, since ''someone'' thinks they can happen. | ||
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If we chooose to use [[Consumerium Software License]] two things could result: | |||
#The [[anarchist]] types think that we are too "mainstream", "sold out" or [[control freak]]s and decide to make a [[GPL]] version that runs without any cooperation with the [[companies]], that make and market [[products]] thus making strong worded, weakly substantiated attacks on [[companies]] and [[persons]] possible and the result is that this [[Anarchist Consumerium Fork]] stays out of the mainstream and never reaches the general population of [[consumer]]s | |||
#The executives at big businesses think that we're too [[anarchist]], [[free speech]] and bad for "profit by exploitation"-practices and make a [[Proprietary Consumerium Fork]] for the opposite reasons from the Anarchists (This possibility does not very much depend on our choice of [[Licenses]]) | |||
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[[Company X]] and other enemies create their own modified schema, AND modified software. The modified software works with and even EXPECTS the altered grammar, and now you have a fork. Each promoter of a new fork gets "friendly" content poured into the altered grammar that we can't get first, and (depending on content license and source) can't even copy or validate. The "new improved" [[Corporate Consumerium]] takes over with careful marketing of itself to retails. These professionally-marketed alternative software turns the same green or red light, but, with different criteria. The idea that "you own the hardware you decide what software will run on it, not the customer" is heavily promoted to the [[point of sale]] venue owner (retailer). Advertising benefits are tossed in. Since it serves the interests of retailers, and maybe pays them, it will be preferentially installed to use the [[hardware requirements|standard hardware]] deployed to those retailers by Consumerium. We get crowded out, like Linux has been crowded out, and are used only in a few backwater places that the mainstream marketers ignore. Consumerium has maybe 2% of a market in [[moral purchasing]], and does all the hard work, but is not the source of innovation. | |||
:Actually: There no hope of them ever giving consumerium any credit as a source of Intellectual Property (read: The Concept), so it won't be a [[fork]] in the sense that they would have to say it's based on [[GFDL]]'d material from http://consumerium.org . It'll just be a big money, fancy "service" that's not "not invented here". Big companies hate "not invented here" things. | |||
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