NHExit :) New Hampshire's independence movement I hope. The US federal
government is hopeless in terms of fixing it. More realistically the short
term possibilities are along the lines of fixing state and local government.
The most impact happens at the state level anyway. There are more people in
prison as a result of state government injustices than federal government
injustices. So while the federal government has more of a negative impact
when it targets people it's the state governments that generally do the
targeting. Which basically means even without an NHExit a lot can be fixed by
getting people together in one place at the state and local levels. That's
what is happening in New Hampshire because of various decentralized migration
projects. There is the Free State Project, the Shire Society, and dozens of
groups all over New Hampshire working to end tyrannical government at the
state and local levels. It's a migration that's actually working. There are
lobbyists for freedom here (and nowhere else) and numerous politicians whom
are creating a third party that's actually getting things done.
Whether or not you like what is happening in terms of the level of freedom in
New Hampshire it's happening. The government is ending mandatory licensing
for concealed carry (passed), has got legislation that passed the house (and
I think maybe senate, or they at least heard the bill, might have to vote on
it still) on ending regulation on money transmitters where crypto currencies
are involved, decriminalization of marijuana is going to pass and get signed
into law shortly (89% of the house voted for it, and the new governor is
on-board, so the senate should this year go along with it), etc
There is work on gathering more anti-copy"right" folks up here. I'd say the
vast majority in the movement don't believe in copy"right" and are big
supporters of "open" content and free software (though actually adopting it
is tricky when most people even within the scope of those moving here being
more technical than the average individual are dependent on non-free
software, and many are highly technical even).
If there was a welcoming destination for libre software users I'd definitely
say New Hampshire is it assuming you also support other sorts of freedom such
as ending mandatory driver licensing, ending mandatory vehicle registration,
ending car mandatory inspections, ending mandatory license plates, ending
laws on marriage, ending all drug criminalization, ending copy"right", etc.
Copy"right" is a tricky one that many people don't understand. Particularly
in regards to seemingly contradictory views when it comes to supporting
copyleft. copyleft is basically a poor persons defence to violence enabled by
the state and furthered by corporations. It has no real effect on individual
liberties. It's not used against against individuals. It's not even used
against corporations and has been a complete failure outside of the moral
realm. What I'm saying is copy"right" law doesn't further the cause of
freedom within the software realm. Those who would release free software
would do so with or without copy"right" and the biggest advocates of
enforcing copy"left" and in fact the only ones actually doing it are in
agreement with this view point. Short of RMS getting involved in enforcing
copyleft there simply isn't anybody doing it who believes it is working in
any real effective manor. This is in no way a push for BSD-style licensing.
As long as there is copyright I'm favouring GPL v3 style licenses as I see
this as a defensive posture to those who do threaten violence.
