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by roarcher 4y ago
> And then people will point out that many of the things it asks for are pretty basic, like universal healthcare so you don't need to be on your parents health insurance. And then the other side will use this article to make their c
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Communication tends to be easier when people just say what they have to say, instead of qualifying every single statement with every possible exception that could ever exist.
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It is my personal preference. I couldn't care less how others license their own code. My issue is with people like those who came into this thread to complain about the license of a project they've contributed nothing to, and pain
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> I think you meant more than simply "why I choose not to license my own project as GPL" Think what you want. Nobody else was confused by my meaning. > have and agenda and are paid to spread FUD LMAO you guys are fucking lun
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You're confused. I'm not talking about using your GPL code in my project. I'm talking about why I choose not to license my own project as GPL. Edit: Nice ninja edit. No, I don't use non-copyleft licenses for bragging rig
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I didn't think that, quite the contrary. Since you seem to have trouble with comprehension, let me break this comment thread down for you: - GP says that loyalty isn't always always a good thing because it causes small companies t
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I wonder if you've ever had the pleasure of working for a small company full of the owner's incompetent friends and family. Loyalty is nice within reason, but it can be pathological.
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Perhaps I could have phrased things better--it doesn't directly ask for more but it does create additional burdens. It makes my downstream much smaller, which results in fewer contributions back to my project. It also just isn't s
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> The GPL in no uncertain terms takes freedom away from developers so users can have freedom. And therein lies the problem. Open source developers are already doing a bunch of work for free to benefit others, and this license asks them t
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Then I don't think we disagree on anything. My only objection was to the use of the word "afraid", as if we're all either irrational or brainwashed and there aren't real practical issues with copyleft in certain sit
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> Some entities are afraid copyleft would lock them out of profitable business models It would lock them out of profitable business models, so they make a perfectly rational decision, as a business, to not use it. You can call that fea
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I knew I'd get called out for the HOA analogy lol. My point wasn't that HOAs are similar to copyleft code, that's taking the analogy much further than it was intended. My point is only that people are free to make decisions a
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Nobody is "afraid" of copyleft, that's a rhetorical device you're using to discredit those who disagree with you. People make informed decisions that copyleft requirements don't work for them, and they have every ri
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Because Libre software is included under the umbrella of Open Source. If I'm writing an article about car regulations, I don't need to specifically mention cars with leather interiors unless the regulation treats them differently.
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Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
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I have often thought of how strange it would be to watch HD video of ancient people like the Romans, and wonder what that experience will be like for future archaeologists. Assuming any of this survives the next few thousand years.
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by roarcher 4y ago
> The false marketing claim that Rust somehow invented it is absolutely infuriating. This is the second time I've seen someone say this in the last week or so, but I've never seen this claim in the wild, and certainly not by Ru
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by roarcher 4y ago
Just look at the market since COVID. We're coming out of a bubble. When stocks go way up, companies get drunk on their newfound riches and spend excessively, just like individuals. Then times get leaner and they cut back. Only differen
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A lot of doctors seem to be unaware of the dangers or don't take them seriously. Months later she met with another doctor for reasons unrelated to the seizure episode. The doctor wanted to take her off of Gabapentin (she was taking it
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Good on you for following his advice. An ex girlfriend of mine was on that stuff and ran out for a few days due to a fuckup at her pharmacy, and the abrupt stop caused a Grand Mal seizure which landed her in the hospital for two days. No pr
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I consider myself fairly patriotic and I'd never work for the NSA, because I can think of few things that are more antithetical to this country's (hypothetical) ideals than mass surveillance. The Patriot Act has to be the most iro
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In that case, I think your opinion of 7.62 recoil is colored more by the rifle than the round. The design of the M14 is...less than ideal for recoil control. The bore axis sits far above the point of contact with the shoulder, which creates
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by roarcher 4y ago
No, not "sustained" fire, whatever that means in this context, and not semi-automatic fire. Automatic fire [1]. > In 1954, the larger 7.62×51mm NATO rifle cartridge was selected as the first standard NATO rifle cartridge. At
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Fortunately we don't have to speculate because the professor herself explains why: > Some of the young students in my class take up these offers, and this further demoralizes other female students seeing this happen (i.e. only attra
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> Anyway, have you ever tried keeping the crosshairs on the target with a semi-auto 7.62mm? Unless you've whacked a rather heavy suppressor (ironically enough, legal in my country, unlike the USA) on the end, recoil is going to make
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Perhaps it would've even driven him into a barrier and he'd never need a steering wheel ever again.
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This presents a chicken-and-egg problem. I expect all my shit to be randomly strewn about because that's where I've always put it.
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> Now a puddle, the magnetic field was able to move the melted metal man from inside a cage to outside - where it was gathered in a mould, reformed and left to cool down after the magnetic field was turned off. Wow, that's...really
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I'm talking about arrests, not convictions. You are aware that it's possible to be arrested for a crime you didn't commit, yes? And for far more reputation-destroying things than landing in a drunk tank for a night? How woul
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> Prepare for the support of the vendors of those appliances not taking phone calls anymore, only text communication. Don't worry, someone will plug ChatGPT into a text-to-speech model soon enough, and market it as a way to put the

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