Raiazome catalogues a slurry of open-source software — most engineered in support of Raiazome; some engineered for other, fringed causes; but all un-blurred by the freedom-latching dictates of cost and zero-sum unprofitability of its causes. All software is explicitly, free-purposedly licensed under the GNU General Public License (or compatible derivatives thereof) and with a liberating, sense-incensant license to “Do as thou wilt” with Freedom — dominatingly, free as in beer (gratis!) and free as in speech (libre!).
Commonly misattributed to Aleister Crowley and, thereby, the Wiccan Rede, “Do as thou wilt” is a little perturbation of a slightly likewise phrase in “Chapter 1.LVII.—How the Thelemites were governed, and of their manner of living.” of François Rabelais‘s Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, Book I (1532).
French satirist, satyric humanist, and mangy, humane physician, Rabelais is the inventor (mayhap) of the hapless human ideal. As it bears, saliently, on anarchism, the Wiki ideal, and rhizomatous, free-willed technologies that built this wiki, Raiazome repeats this quote here.
May it ne’er — in venemous spite, or censure — be repealed.
All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good; they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule and strictest tie of their order there was but this one clause to be observed,
Do What Thou Wilt;
because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.
— François Rabelais, Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, Book I
Profit (malformed of tithe; soiling dirge of blood and sweat; and scourged, swathing ailments of mastered servitude to abstract schemes and fuming, inhuman economy) abets and forms our Empire’s bastion strength of:
Open-source software is not inherently opposed to profit; but Raiazome, in the deeds of freedom that it resounds, is. Let this be the death knell of profit, thusly: unrolling chimes of software artistry, and words that knife the abstract Demon’s cavity of honor.
And toll it soon.