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by kongin 5y ago
The vast majority of users never access the computers they use. Every open source license, apart from the AGPL, is for personal computing first and mainframe never. Which is why you don't have the source code for google even though you
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>but even the more premium laptops like Thinkpads are way cheaper(and AFAIK they also provide very good Linux support). This has not been the case in 5 years.
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>The point is that political movements have short life spans. Perhaps in the tens or hundreds of years, which is not nearly enough for evolution to make any meaningful impact. Evolution can work on any time scale, including instantly. Lo
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>I expected these numbers to be higher. Home vs office. On my company laptop I am often not allowed to install software (but I'm allowed to develop the software that companies trust to handle billions of dollars in transactions) so
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>and its present meaning is related to the OSI Not unless you work for the OSI, least you forget they actually tried to get it patented and got rejected: https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p..
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by kongin 5y ago
And a GPL license will stop it from being included in OpenBSD. So what?
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>The terms "free software" and "open source" have a specific meaning in the software ecosystem. The former is defined by the Free Software Definition and the latter by the Open Source Definition, respectively publishe
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The argument we're making is that it's a line that made sense in 1980s academia when you wanted printer drivers. Less so in 2020s real life where we are a hair width away from smart dust total surveillance.
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>If you want people to have control over the tools they learn, use and deploy, then it needs to be under a libre/free license. I'm old enough to remember having this exact argument on dial up bbs's on why the BSD and MIT l
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By that logic no instance of an NP complete problem is NP complete because you can solve any NP complete problem in finite time, seeing as it's not undecidable. It just might take longer than the universe will exist for you to get a so
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The reason so many people hate maths is because maths is taught so poorly: https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html >The reason was that the books were so lousy. They were false. They were hurried. They would try to be
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>Government jobs are extremely lucrative, many pay six figures and opportunities to supplement with graft are plentiful. It’s a powerful club to be in and you’re potentially set for life. My spouse is a lifelong resident and remembers ru