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#+TITLE: Open Letter to Bite Size Vegan
#+DATE: <2016-06-20 Mon 17:23>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: Open Letter to Bite Size Vegan.
#+KEYWORDS: freedom software vegan


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I wrote the following to Bite Size Vegan. I wish more community
activits would join the free software community. We all share so many
commmon values.


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I saw your video on youtube, the extremism of youtube. I also watched
your video blog post about how you have been censored.

You may have heard of open source software. In the way that vegan and
vegetarian share commonalities, in the software world, vegan is to
free software what vegetarian is to open source software. I strongly
urge you to read about the history and qualifications of free
software, either at our peers.community website or at gnu.org or
fsf.org.

Some of the concepts might seem abstract from food, but the core idea
of having the freedom to act without subjugation remains consistent
between the two. There are ways to host your own videos either on your
own or with the help of other free internet communities such as
archive.org or goblinrefuge.com.

At the very least, I also urge you to release your videos under a free
creative commons license. Even youtube has options for this. Probably
the best option, the CC-BY-SA ensures anyone can view it and share it
without worry of prosecution as long as they credit the rights holder.
Otherwise, using the youtube standard license only grants the
megacorps the ability to use your work in nearly any way they see fit.

As a vegan and a free software user, I don't see how the two can fully
exist without the other.

Thanks for making videos. I hope to see more soon.
