_d7dt

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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   I don't think that at all, I'm just another person giving my opinion, like you. Also, I don't understand why you said that, but then asked me to keep my opinions to myself.
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   I'm not sure where you heard any of that, but I have never heard any Red Hat employees say anything to that effect, ever. Fedora still exists, and to me that seems perfectly fine to install on a random laptop.
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   I assume you have not read these type of privacy policies before, but it's extremely common for web sites and online services to disallow children under 13, at least in the US because of COPPA compliance. In general, it is illegal for
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   >It's absurd to expect the word "community" to appear in the text of the GPL I'm not sure why you're saying this? I don't expect that word to appear in the text. It also seems mostly not possible to prove or
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   Sure, but the "intent" in question would be the intent of the copyright holder that chose to use the GPL. My point is that the intent in a lot of cases is NOT to do what is being suggested.
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   I'm not sure what value you're suggesting rustc would be able to bring there. If you want that in LLVM you can try your luck with the "resurrected" C backend: https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llv
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   I am familiar with the various other things that are hosted on the GNU website. I'm referring to the actual authoritative legal text that gets copied alongside all the source code that you use, not any other essays on the subject. That
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   >when they allow private corporations to profit from the community’s work without recompense back to the community. I'm not sure why this is frequently brought up in the context of the GPL. The GPL says nothing about that and has ne
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   by _d7dt 5y ago

   I don't think it took me that long. I said this elsewhere but to me that is mostly a documentation problem, not anything to do with the underlying technology or the package format.
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    by _d7dt 5y ago

    I don't install build-essential on a server, in a container, on a VM, etc. It really matters in those places. If you combine them then you lose the ability to deploy a small rootfs.