slgeorge

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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yes, but that would not be an FSF or OSI compatible license. It would be more like Microsofts "shared source", or GitLabs enterprise edition https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/L
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yes, that's what I meant by this this is a "cultural thing". In some organisations turning up to a meeting and not having done the pre-work would be unacceptable, in others it's not. It's something that the whole gr
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I guess no-one (or fewer people) were testing that configuration. I wonder if you could use a VM or similar to at least test the upgrade before you do it. I do quite a bit of cleaning before an upgrade, but hitting the button to 'do it
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by slgeorge 10y ago
You should use the upgrade system provided by Ubuntu ('update-manager'), it knows more about the changes than the standard 'dist-upgrade'. You can also run it to test what changes it will make. Second, if you are using P
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yeah, I think "send all the relevant reading materials before hand" is great, and I'd add "and make sure everyone reads them" which is a cultural thing. Another great one is to differentiate between items which are
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by slgeorge 10y ago
It's the Internet so who needs skills or experience to comment! But, I did run a commercial team (lawyers and negotiators) for a software company that handled hundreds of incoming and outgoing licenses: including ones to major software
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I've only read the blog post you linked and scanned the current license. I don't find anything unusual in them for a proprietary license . Most of the cited examples in the blog post are common standard language used in license a
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by slgeorge 10y ago
That's fair enough, there are lots of FOSS users who don't care about there being more users. They care about their individual freedoms - it's a perfectly rational view. Perhaps I mis-spoke because I personally do care about
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yes, support is definitely an important one. There are other attributes that some professional users care about more than just a simple functional matrix. For example, I've been in situations where the ability for the professional user
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I feel like FOSS is growing/winning for developers and shrinking/losing for users. FOSS is used a lot by the major SaaS companies to deliver their solutions, but none of their solutions are themselves FOSS. For example: Goog
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by slgeorge 10y ago
@sandGorgon thanks for apologising, I really appreciate anyone taking a moment to reconsider their underlying assumptions and thinking.
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by slgeorge 10y ago
This article is an example of what over ~20 years has steadily turned me away from the FSF. How does this article do any good? At the bottom of the page it says: "Our mission is to preserve, protect and promote the freedom ...&quot
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The problem with this argument is that it doesn't achieve the aim of winning more users, even if it is true. The "open source" movement recognised that users don't care about freedom, but they do care about other aspec
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by slgeorge 10y ago
HN loves remote working - so think of this as 'contrarian' to test out the limits: >They’ve successfully worked remotely before, or they’ve run their own business (do they have what it takes to motivate themselves to work s
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> So they are counting CC processing fees towards revenues. I suspect that CC payment processing fees shopify pays are approximately equal to what they are charging, so this is just a revenue game where they charge 3% to customers, pay a
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Not really; it's a redefinition of the word productive to mean 'doing' and so is able to argue that creativity needs space (aka be receptive).
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Plus they don't handle IP in any meaningful sense. For that you have to pay into OIN ( http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about-us/ ).
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I've been going through a similar experience over the last few years, mostly driven by my hardware getting older and not handling the requirements of modern DE's (when I'd prefer the resource to be used for applications). It&
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Are you aware that the whole of the development resource (people) across the entire free software desktop would fit into a reasonable size conference room? Versus, say the size of the development teams on proprietary systems such as Windo
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done. The difficulty is that one persons "sensible default" is anothers "crazy
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by slgeorge 10y ago
But, the reality is that "creative professionals" have very few reasons to change platforms as Mac/Windows satisfises [0] them. This means they don't contribute to making alternative platforms better for their use-case.
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Most of the negative comments on this story are in the context of stopping a state actor whose specifically targeting you. The rest of this comment is covering the "drag net" effect of this legislation - any one individual is not
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The reduction of the exchange rate is unlikely to actually help the UK. Have a look at some of the academic research, while business leaders and politicians believe that a reduced exchange rate helps exporters there's not that much evi
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by slgeorge 10y ago
It may not happen, but many companies believe it could happen. Consequently, they say next to nothing about ex-employees - only the dates of employment. If you're the company being asked for the reference there is no upside in you sa
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Is Linux more widely used than any of the BSD's? Yes. So license doesn't seem to be a sufficient impediment if the functionality advantages are sufficient. This meme "seems" right, but I see less evidence for it in the f
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Go for the Linux specific version "Developer" version for two reasons. First, the components it uses are identified by Dell to work with Linux well. Second, Dell pays the Linux vendor (Ubuntu in this case) to make the hardware wor
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> I'm going to try Linux for the iftiest time. When you do that please, please buy something where it's preloaded onto the system (e.g. Dell XPS) so that you get the same sort of hardware/software experience that you get
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I don't get this type of structure or fear of being "judged" when addressing articles. When you say this: > What's with the judgement? How does one feel judged by the writer of an article who doesn't know the rea
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by slgeorge 10y ago
There are a lot of people in this discussion who know more than I do about Twitter - and part of the answer is situational specific. Often, "cut fast and deep" makes sense because you're in a difficult situation where both e
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Don't really think that's realistic. In all honesty, the easiest way to tank the Brexit vote would have been to allow MP's a vote in Parliament - which would have been perfectly constitutionally valid - since the majority o

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