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by jzb 3y ago
Most people never stored their TV on their personal devices in the first place. People shifted from rental to streaming / DVD & Blu-Ray to streaming. Every year I have more pictures and more documents and more stuff in general to s
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by jzb 3y ago
I only use cloud storage as a convenience / easy backup, not as "permanent" storage. My need for large storage devices hasn't really declined, it's pretty much crept up year by year. Also - it starts getting very sp
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by jzb 3y ago
It’s on archive.org, is that really going to work?
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by jzb 3y ago
I should know better than reply on my phone. Leader not latter.
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by jzb 3y ago
They’re the latter as far as paid Linux goes. Kernel contributions are only one metric / piece of a distro, and these days a lot of the code churn is hardware if I’m not mistaken. It makes sense that Red Hat has slipped because the big
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by jzb 3y ago
Canonical recently introduced a “Pro” subscription - I’m not sure how sources are available from that. There really aren’t rebuilders for Ubuntu in the same way, and Canonical has a very different place in the industry. I think there was a
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by jzb 3y ago
Because Red Hat’s competitors have been stirring the pot and because people have become accustomed to a free RHEL and feel entitled to it.
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by jzb 3y ago
Competition is great. Xeroxing the code and undercutting them isn’t actually competing. Oracle went after Red Hat when Red Hat bought JBoss. Larry said as much. They didn’t like Red Hat actually competing with them, so Oracle sought to unde
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by jzb 3y ago
Loyalty? Inertia? I never felt like there was a reason to switch. I admired Bram’s work on Vim, still do, and didn’t see any benefits to switching. Still don’t, as long as the rest of the Vim dev community are willing and able to carry it f
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by jzb 3y ago
That’s probably a good sign you don’t want that job.
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by jzb 3y ago
Article says that’s what they’re doing. It says exactly that. Doesn’t really make things better, IMO, but they are at least doing that.
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by jzb 3y ago
This is some bullshit. It’s bad enough that a lot of sites with content going back 10-20 years have linkrot or have simply gone offline. But I am at a loss for words that they’re disappearing content on purpose just for SEO rankings. If thi
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by jzb 3y ago
“Less critical then” Than. Not “then,” than. I point this out because I’m pretty sure lazy reliance on spellcheck and autocorrect are to blame with about half the internet using then when they should be using than. I shudder to think what a
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by jzb 3y ago
Voight-Kampff test for each participant.
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes, very hard. I feel like I knew him - kind of silly given I've never met him and I don't think have even crossed emails with him. Yet I've used his work for decades and I think it's fair to say that there's a lot
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by jzb 3y ago
How sweet. All those poor, voiceless companies are no doubt touched by the concern.
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by jzb 3y ago
I'm not convinced that this even violates the spirit of the GPL. Let's be honest here: Red Hat is still distributing the software widely, but it's making it hard to make exact Xeroxes of RHEL. That's a business problem,
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by jzb 3y ago
"The massive power asymmetry matters." Rules for thee but not for me? What's the boundary for company size that forces public release of code vs. allowing a small company to choose its customers? If Red Hat's customers
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by jzb 3y ago
No. The analogy here is this: Every time I hand you your monthly subscription of software, you can do anything allowed by the GPL. However, if you threaten my business, I can stop your monthly subscription. You have the GPL rights for every
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by jzb 3y ago
You're not reading it wrong. The popular understanding of the GPL vs. the actual text of the GPL are two extremely different things. Red Hat is far from alone in this. If I'm not mistaken, there's a whole cottage industry of
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by jzb 3y ago
If you wanna swing round and buy the beer, go for it. Or Scotch. I'm partial to a good Scotch.
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by jzb 3y ago
AFAIK this does not sign over any rights. It simply says that the signees support a "cure" period for GPL violations like the GPLv3 has. This wouldn't help Red Hat much if a rights holder decided that Red Hat was violating th
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by jzb 3y ago
It isn't a threat or intimidation - it's simply a potential that Red Hat will stop doing business with you. Imagine for a moment that you're an indie developer and you contract with a company to supply support for a GPL'
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by jzb 3y ago
AGPL provisions kick in for services delivered over a network, basically the SaaS models. With RHEL some of the code may be under the AGPL (I haven't checked if any of the RHEL packages are actually AGPL), but it's not being offer
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by jzb 3y ago
"It violates the spirit of the open source software movement" Says a person promoting open core. I have little interest in hearing lectures about the spirit of open source from open core proponents. None, actually. There are defin
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by jzb 3y ago
It is indeed a common tactic to focus on the terminology rather than the message, which is why it's so frustrating when someone you largely agree with chooses terminology that makes it so easy to do. This is one of those "you can
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by jzb 3y ago
George Carlin has a lot to say on that topic... well, had. In this case, it wouldn't really be better if it were "encrapification" or "enpoopification." IMO the problem with the term, aside from "shit" bei
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by jzb 3y ago
In case this is unclear: This is not an insult in any way. I have a lot of respect for Cory and Jello. They are, however, only for certain audiences and rely a lot on shock value and stylings that go over well with those audiences and work
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by jzb 3y ago
Cory is kind of the Jello Biafra[1] of technology. If you go back and listen to some of Jello's older spoken word albums... damn. The guy is right, a lot. Also extreme and definitely not for mainstream audiences -- which is unfortunate
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by jzb 3y ago
I dislike the word and I also feel like we're already at the point where everything people don't like is just lazily called "enshittification." I'm not sure this qualifies, but IMO it comes close. There's a lot

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