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by hvis 6y ago
You don't have to assign the copyright when your total contribution is below 15 lines of so. Just something to note.
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by hvis 6y ago
On Windows it's not as fast as Linux, but it's not terrible either (as far as I heard). Also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/16902730/615245 (I think it's not needed with the latest versions of Git
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by hvis 6y ago
It was somewhat political, but it was more of an issue of manpower. Also, Guile is basically maintained by one developer (as far as I've heard). It's pretty dangerous for Emacs to rely on a project like that.
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by hvis 6y ago
Meaning, it's only really slow on macOS.
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by hvis 6y ago
Are latest Surface models working okay with Ubuntu?
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by hvis 6y ago
From what I can see, Dell has significant problems with quality control. That's why the feedback is so varied. If you live in a city with good Dell support, you could probably have managed to replace it. Sounds like a hardware problem.
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by hvis 6y ago
I also Alt-Tab a lot, and don't remember this being a problem. Either I got used to its behavior quickly, or it was configurable too.
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by hvis 6y ago
That's weird. I've been doing Zoom through web browser multiple times for hours since then.
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by hvis 6y ago
It's better than 19.04 was. :-) 20.04 should be better still (I've yet to upgrade).
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by hvis 6y ago
Agile consultants are not the only people who do that. https://i.imgur.com/ecsh9yp.png
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by hvis 6y ago
Snaps certainly have some usability problems. E.g. to use videoconferencing in Chromium I had to give it rights to connect to record audio explicitly. I expect you needed to do something like that for the VS Code snap.
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by hvis 6y ago
Unity was very good in a lot of respects. Both its UI elements and its performance. Unfortunately, Unity 7 depended on Compiz somewhat heavily, and when it came to writing a replacement of the full stack, Canonical didn't manage to exe
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by hvis 6y ago
Well, I recall the previous "poster child" of FOSS codecs was Ogg Vorbis which competed with MP3 and AAC just fine. As for video research being expensive, you're right, of course. We're probably seeing much increased fun
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by hvis 6y ago
What do you mean, no need? The US government did this. IIUC Tumblr and Craigs have similar problems as a result. Video games are somewhat different, it's not a situation of a platform with user-generated content.
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by hvis 6y ago
So to be more accurate the problem is not open source being unable to compete with commercial stuff on technical merits. If you read some of Xiph's development blogs (with work on new audio or video coders such as aforementioned AV1),
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by hvis 6y ago
I'm guessing Patreon is reacting to the changes in the legal landscape. The same ones that made Craiglist close its Personals section (or however it was called): the increased liability for the platform for whatever behaviors the publi
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by hvis 6y ago
There's not much we can do, collectively, except to use the best available probably-unencumbered option, and then wait for the courts to throw the patents away. Google starting to use AV1 in their products in earnest should either trig
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by hvis 6y ago
All sides, actually. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/us-sanctions-ven...
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by hvis 7y ago
Nah, it's the same code. There would be no need to create a new derivative work. It's a pipe dream anyway, of course.
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by hvis 7y ago
It just regulates the conditions under which the (hopefully) dynamic library is distributed. If the question comes to court (IIUC, this particular case has never been tested), you are just as likely to be ordered to pay for copyright infrin
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by hvis 7y ago
> The question is clearly determined by copyright law. If I call a function, this doesn't make the calling function a derived work. It does make the called function a part of your program, however. Because if that function is not av
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by hvis 7y ago
And where's the contradiction? GPL software is always open, the knowledge is out there, and people can use and share it. The only thing you're not allowed to do is do a change and "close" it. It's like you're b
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by hvis 7y ago
And IIRC ZFS used by FreeBSD now is based on the ZFSonLinux project.
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by hvis 7y ago
> ("GNU/Linux" is a strange beast- kernel+libc or what?) Kernel plus userspace: the standard command-line tools, compilers and some additional stuff. Such as GNOME, for instance (it's considered a part of the GNU proj
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by hvis 7y ago
They can relicense Oracle-owned code under GPL. As just one example. There are probably other options, too.
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by hvis 7y ago
> (Written on my Kubuntu workstation) Exactly. Don't be a bee protesting against honey.
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by hvis 7y ago
That's just a question of where one software ends and another begins. Essentially, for lawyers to decide. But that's also why LGPL exists.
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by hvis 7y ago
GPL never says you can't charge for software. As for immorality, you can read the justifications here starting from item 4 (Voices from the Revolution): https://www.drdobbs.com/the-ethics-of-free-software/18441458.
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by hvis 7y ago
And then, suddenly, Linux stops receving the myriad device driver contributions that it does now.
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by hvis 7y ago
That's not true. When you are the sole author of the program, you clearly can choose whatever license you wish. As long as you don't mooch off the efforts of others.

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