cpnks

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   by cpnks 14y ago

   Everyone in the startup crowd's on MacOS? Dog droppings. I know plenty on Ubuntu.
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   by cpnks 14y ago

   >As far as Coursera, it didn't exist in Fall. It was created in response to Stanford lawyers and bureaucrats going apeshit and shutting the venture down once they saw what a threat it was since the classes were as good as what they were
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   by cpnks 14y ago

   Look at who is actually doing the work, not the press releases. The first class is co-taught by Anant Agarwal, the director of CSAIL, Jerry Sussman, who is a founding director of the FSF, and Piotr Mitros, who has been active in the free so
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   by cpnks 14y ago

   My impression is that by numbers, we're moving from big projects -- like Linux, LibreOffice, Gnome, KDE, Gimp, gcc, etc. -- to smaller projects -- small JavaScript libraries on github that people fork, merge, etc. GPL makes a lot of sense f
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   by cpnks 14y ago

   What distinction do you see between CC-SSA and GPL? They say essentially the same thing. CC-SS has the same viral nature as the GPL/LGPL (it's about halfway in between the two). The GPL has a lot of FUD about it, but there's very little act