opensourcenews

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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Potentially unpopular opinion: There is no money to be made in consumer desktop operating systems in 2018, so there is little funding for innovation in the consumer desktop operating system space. Until a business model emerges which challe
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Great. Sounds like freeware to me. Not free software.
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Under what license may I utilize this piece of software?
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Literally the purpose of the Open Source Initiative is to provide definition to what open source is and is not, and to prevent openwashing by companies and individuals presenting their non-open software as open source. I'm not going to
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
> Where did you get that gem from? From the open source definition: https://opensource.org/osd > As far as I know the only OS License that has been deemed enforceable is GNU General Public License. The OSI recognizes
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
But again, to be clear, it's not free software according to the commonly accepted definition of free software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Because open source has a very specific definition which the licensing on this application does not conform to. The ability to produce derived works is a key attribute of open source. And I understand that these are your thoughts, but what
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Note: This licensing is really unclear and problematic. https://twitter.com/charlesforman/status/909863346127671296 https://wonderunit.com/thoughts-on-free-and-open-source/
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
I got my start with programming in QBasic. Now I work at a Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor. FWIW I don't write much code that gets merged into anything important, but I wouldn't be working in the tech industry at
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
I would have written the headline as "In an Absolute State: Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Could Be a Marker Specific to Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation" but maybe that's only because I'm in a good mood.
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
> City planners assumed everyone would have one, engineers overbuilt roads for them to the detriment of walking or biking, and businesses and residential areas are often far apart from each other. Close. More like "rich white peopl
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A history of low-level Linux container runtimes(opensource.com)
2 points by opensourcenews 9y ago|0 comments
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Building a Linux-Based HPC System on the Raspberry Pi with Ansible(opensource.com)
2 points by opensourcenews 9y ago|0 comments
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
And the pedestrians go where?
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Meltdown and Spectre in three minutes [video](youtube.com)
1 points by opensourcenews 9y ago|0 comments
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
I tend to agree with the comments about height, but re: skyways - they're just kind of weird. They're not public spaces, so they can be exclusionary. And the vibe is just kind of weird. Downtown Atlanta below the skyways is alread
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Don’t hire team members like they’re consultants(anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)
1 points by opensourcenews 9y ago|0 comments
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Architecting the future with abstractions and metadata(opensource.com)
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OpenStreetMap turns 13(opensource.com)
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
Wal-mart, with a large IT cost center, benefits from a diverse and competitive cloud infrastructure ecosystem. More at 11.
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by opensourcenews 9y ago
I still don't understand the concern. Want the name, age, gender, home address, mailing address, party of registration, and voter history from every registered voter in North Carolina? Here is the "leak" on Amazon S3. http:&
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5 Arduino projects to upgrade your car(opensource.com)
1 points by opensourcenews 9y ago|0 comments
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10 command-line tools for data analysis in Linux(opensource.com)
9 points by opensourcenews 10y ago|0 comments
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Lock the Door Your Boomer Parents Have Decided to Downsize(wsj.com)
1 points by opensourcenews 10y ago|7 comments
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Stabilizing the world of hot and fast containers(opensource.com)
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Flatpak: a containerized format for desktop Linux applications(linux.com)
2 points by opensourcenews 10y ago|0 comments