In the three weeks or so, I've learned a great deal about the United States legal system because of this:
https://github.com/notional-labs/notional/blob/master/incidents/AIBvGY.pdf
examples:
- if your name appears in a lawsuit against someone else, you haven't been named, you've been cited
- if you're being sued, then you're being named
- Attorneys have only a fictional duty to make factual filings, even in federal court
- SLAPP suits may be legal at the federal level
- A more-moneyed plantiff can attempt to sue a defendant into poverty, even if the claims are provably untrue
- the veracity of statements made in a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York doesn't matter
- filing a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that is riddled with blatant factual inaccuracies can cost $300,000
- lawsuits with no intent other than to harm have dragged on for as long as 8-15 years
I'm writing this because I'm sad.
I think that at least in the United States, my home country, we've abandoned fact. We provably do not care. I shall demonstrate with some screenshots from the lawsuit that I linked to above.
Note
I am not being sued. My friend Grace is being sued because she rightly fought for my former colleague Denis' right to use open source code after the termination of his employment at AllInBits, Inc.
An open, public blockchain must be forkable. I will now correct the error in Blurt's licensing.
https://gitlab.com/blurt/blurt/-/merge_requests/399
Done. Sorry for my naivete.
See the thing is if you want a decentralized system, you cannot restrict its use in any way. It might be possible for the blurt community to license the code, if and only if Blurt actually hosted the code, but it does not.
AllinBits, Inc does not know this, however. Denis needed a waiver because he signed a noncompete. If Denis could not freely work on the Ignite CLI or make it into his own product, then it is very clear that the planned ignite chain was not a decentralized product - the company building it attempted to assert control over it. This is wrong as a matter of principle and also as a matter of strategy. As long as AIB engages in contracts like that, the entire premise of AIB as a company that makes decentralized software has flown out the window. I guess that this will be the last lesson I will learn from Jae Kwon.
It's very late now, I will write more later. There's a story that I would like to tell about all this and it's pretty sad.
I don't know what you expected. You obviously have no idea what decentralization and open source are, since it didn't seem logical to you.
Decentralization, as the name suggests, is the decentralization of power, i.e. there are no entities that can have any claims to anything that has been decentralized as their own, and therefore they cannot hold anyone who uses such solutions to any responsibility for using it or have control over it.
This is why the idea of decentralization is so desired by people because it ends the era of "fat" billionaires who sit on tons of mammon for doing nothing and selling the "right" to do something for 10% of someones profit from that they monopolized, because with cunning deals and petty tricks they made someone have to pay them for something just because they started something or bought something first.
And thus ends the era of capital accumulation in the hands of a handful of people. If you are smart and hardworking, you live richly and with dignity, but if you do nothing, you have nothing and the capital inherited from your parents eventually runs out. Not that you are subsidized by monopolizing an industry and now charging yourself for the very fact that you started something first.
Being first at something is not a privilege, it's a statistic. Out of 1,000 people trying to build an airplane, someone must have succeeded.
That doesn't mean the other 999 were any dumber or worse. Simply, for example, they could have been born later, or had conditions to start research later.
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Beautiful
Good to see this fix. Now you should burn fake stake (socialgraph, initblurt) that you and megadrive have acquired thanks to an illegal, no longer existing record
Decentralize or else....
If SOMEONE could please get ahold of Elon or his Doge CEO, I would be happy to get my @frankbacon there reinstated for shits and giggles 🤬
I left it Inert (I think 🤔) back in 2013, when I red the righting on the wall or got my Qs from an AI, and left the Twitter Psyop for the proofing grounds of Blockchain.
Long story short... I'd be happy to go back to the Twitter space now that Elon fixt a few important points.
My proposal:
Now that Twitter (via eltorro) is going to become a knew Bank, ON interwebs rails, then I wish to secure my old @frankbacon account on Twitter (which was made unrecoverable by me a decade ago) and have it connected back to me via my 🤬ID rather than an email. Twitter will HAVE to secure good relations by accepting 🤬 as a valid replacement to email to secure an account.
Easiest way to Get all of that done is for someone to put me in touch with Elon or his Doge, and I'll explain the rest 🥓
Lets pray that he listens to you.
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I was cited in a lawsuit...
Once or twice 🥓
https://playgroundai.com/post/clggszut20hfas601rt2jmop5
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https://playgroundai.com/post/clgku9wfu007qs601sdmsbmha
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