Are there any tmux alternatives with features that are close to, or better than the same? When I’m talking about features, I’m talking about:

  • client-server session management
  • good plugin support
  • advanced copy-paste functionality
  • advanced window and pane management

but with GNU license? screen and dtach aren’t what I’m looking for, because they’re lacking in features.

There’s nothing wrong with tmux, and I would like to continue using it with Kakoune, but I want to strengthen my advocacy for software that use GNU license wherever possible.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    GNU is not Marxist. Like, flatly, not at all. To say so is just a mistake or a lie.

    GPL says literally nothing at all about workers, employment, capital, or revolution. It makes no requirements addressing the rights of workers who develop software on behalf of capitalist corporations. GNU does not advocate for workers owning the means of production, or against capitalist corporations alienating those workers from the product of their labor.

    The GPL doesn’t say “If you employ workers to work on this code, those workers rather than their employer must own the product of their labor.”

    Rather, it is entirely focused on granting rights to software purchasers and users.

    This makes sense if you know movement history. The inspiration for the FSF and GNU originated with RMS’s experience as a customer denied access to improve printer software that his MIT lab bought and used.

    It’s not Marxist. It’s explicitly consumerist.

    • Sha'ul
      1•2 years ago

      You used the philosophy and objective of Marxism to say that the GPL is not Marxist.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        That’s how one demonstrates that two views are not in accord with one another, yes. If it were Marxist, then it would address Marxist concerns. It does not; this is strong evidence that it’s not Marxist.

        • Sha'ul
          1•2 years ago

          The Marxist philosophy is not solely and strictly pertaining to workers. There is a Marxist culture, living with a Marxist mindset or mentality, and living with a Marxist view of the world or trying to get the world to fall into a Marxist view and setting up society in a Marxist way.