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by quantummkv 7y ago
Is anyone surprised by this? I certainly am not. It really is inevitable. When the whole CoC was shoehorned in the Linux Kernel, many people warned that this was going to happen. We were just hand waved with "No such thing would happen
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by quantummkv 7y ago
I don't see whats wrong with the title? The article is exactly what the title suggests - An open letter to the linux foundation
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> The latter is something they can and should fix as they created the problem in the first place. That is whole point you see. Activists like these don't want to do anything. I would even say that they actually even don't want
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it. You should check out the Wayland session. They have fractional scaling working perfectly there
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by quantummkv 7y ago
>Except for that part where their business model incentivizes them to bloat the library towards what is actually paying (car and smart fridge dashboard UIs) That will happen to any project that takes any form of sponsorship money. People
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> I think the real way to equalize OSS software is to make it partially OSS ... maybe any company w/ < 10 mill profits it's FOSS, any company over that has to pay in man-hours (contributions) or $$ to use the product. A frie
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free. But you cannot cry and moan if you give away the soup for free to someone and then find that they are reselling that to someone else for money. Or to make it
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by quantummkv 7y ago
I am really sorry but I genuinely am unable to understand what you said. Can you repeat that in english please?
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by quantummkv 7y ago
It is a fair trade. Qt works this way and is very successful in both the commercial and open source worlds.
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by quantummkv 7y ago
It kinda does. Pretending otherwise is like asking people to pay 10$ before eating at a community kitchen. Or forcing people to pay to enter a public park.
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> As Perens puts it, "we have to draw a line between 'open source' and the right to make money with open source. The open source definition allows, but does not support, your right to make money. We're not going to ch
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by quantummkv 7y ago
>Would he generally install software if he sees an ad for it, or was that special because it wasn't obvious that it was an ad and therefore had more trust That's the trick in here. He doesn't install anything else off the
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Let me tell you about a fascinating anecdote that happened to me a few years ago. My grandfather bought a new laptop. I set it up with firefox and saved his common sites (gmail, facebook, etc) to the new tab page so that he dosen't hav
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> In case it's not clear to other readers: `funding` had no tracking, no data collection, and no code from untrusted third parties. It was a `console.log` with some fancy formatting. The same was said about the early banner ads, ear
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> In classic fashion, the most privileged 1% of developers (as in those with the most free time - young, white, able-bodied men) saw the newly released React and fell over themselves to be in on The Latest Interesting Technology. I am a
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Stability? Guarantee that the api will continue to work and that no one will wake up one morning and left-pad the entire ecosystem?
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by quantummkv 7y ago
It does, and it is precisely why despite all the exclusion hapening around, we still get shootings and bombings. The people that have somehow wound up in positions of power the tech world seem to believe that placing a carpet over a hole in
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by quantummkv 7y ago
It's the same story here on Firefox with Webrender (which even manages to tame the horribly unoptimized youtube). I am sure there is some irony on some level and dimension when the first piece of text on this abomination of a site is &
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by quantummkv 7y ago
This is a very weird article. Isn't the main point of electric cars is to reduce carbon emissions? I don't remember Elon Musk saying that his cars would solve the problem of Urban Sprawl, traffic jams, or parking space? The headli
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by quantummkv 7y ago
They are still under development
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Location: Pune, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly, if the offer is good Technologies: (Web Development) PHP, Laravel, React, Typescript, Electron, Linux System Administration, DevOps, Ruby on Rails, Nodejs, C#/WPF, Web Au
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by quantummkv 7y ago
I don't think so. Wikipedia has a model that works. And unlike Wikipedia, a whole lot of professionals working in some of the most high paying jobs across the globe frequent and love stackoverflow. All stackoverflow has to do is to bit
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by quantummkv 7y ago
The situation is a nightmare on any "official" subreddit. So much so that I have taken to completely stay of the frontpage, remove all the default subreddits and only explicitly whitelist subreddits based on my interests. The redd
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Um no, because gtk/gnome devs have explicitly stated that Adwaita is the one true gtk theme. The name "Adwaita" reflects it. In GTK3+, the concept of themes does not exist. This is why you need 3rd party tools to change them.
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by quantummkv 7y ago
This is more of an indictment of the way GTK3+ handles theming (or lack of it). GNOME/GTK devs, as usual, got confused and implemented something no one wants. Either you provide a proper and defined way to theme like KDE does or take t
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Linux 5.2 is supposedly introducing a flag that does exactly what you want. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Spectre-...
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Yeah. but you should be honest about your skills and not bullcrap your way into being the chef in charge of preparing the pufferfish main course. That is a very deadly disaster. By all means learn to code and make programs for yourself. No
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by quantummkv 7y ago
Those people would have landed at Linux because of bash, posix and all the unix underpinnings allowing them to preserve big parts of their workflow. My point still stands.
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by quantummkv 7y ago
It's like saying Ford will bring an electric truck to the mass market by making it sound like an ICE, act like an ICE, work with Diesel and run a 6-litre V12 to charge the batteries with a dynamo. A complete and utter waste that does n
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by quantummkv 7y ago
> But I consider that also as a success to Linux... as that means that people who feel like home at Windows can also develop Linux Software, and that's the big deal. The kind software development that WSL is allowing is already targ

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