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by webmink 3y ago
Thanks for following up, Michael, it is much appreciated. It does leave me (and judging my adjacent comments, also others) with questions, including: * That wording seems very specific - is there a reason you did not just say "we will
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by webmink 3y ago
It's great that you are engaging and writing about this, many thanks. While your blog is interesting, it doesn't change the impact of the Terms of Service as currently written. They seem to give you the freedom to train your curre
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by webmink 3y ago
Thanks for commenting. The issue is not with using AI features though - it is with the Terms granting you unrestricted and eternal use to our conversations to train your AI and potentially disclose our work to your other customers.
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by webmink 4y ago
With this election, AlmaLinux becomes the only major CentOS Linux replacement distribution to be solely owned and operated by its community of developers and users.
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AlmaLinux now solely community controlled following election(fossforce.com)
9 points by webmink 4y ago|1 comments
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US Tornado Cash smackdown puts the onus on crypto bros to act lawfully(blog.opensource.org)
6 points by webmink 4y ago|2 comments
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by webmink 4y ago
According to the OSI, while the US government needs to clarify exactly what it was intending to do relating to open source freedoms, in the Tornado Cash case the onus is on the cryptocurrency community to show they can abide by money-launde
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Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising(opensource.org)
501 points by webmink 5y ago|151 comments
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Oracle has been gaslighting programmers about APIs for a decade(meshedinsights.com)
3 points by webmink 5y ago|0 comments
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The rights-ratchet model – spotting the next Elastic before it happens(meshedinsights.com)
1 points by webmink 6y ago|0 comments
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by webmink 6y ago
I'm glad for you. Your experience is not shared by small businesses for which ICT is a mystery rather than a delight.
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by webmink 9y ago
To put it concisely, “why is having a patent license until you commence litigation worse than not having one at all?” The answer is subtle. Many corporate lawyers operate on the assumption that all open source licenses that do not mention p
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Is ForgeRock betraying its community's open source trust?(meshedinsights.com)
2 points by webmink 9y ago|0 comments
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by webmink 10y ago
As far as I can see the files that were originally under MIT still have their original copyright statements intact, as comments above illustrate. Which files are you alleging have had their credits removed from?
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by webmink 15y ago
I wrote the article you're complaining about, which is actually mainly about making hybrid PDFs. I did not see your article, let alone copy it; I would have linked to it if I had. I have been working on that piece for a few months off-and-o
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OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Competition Authorities(blogs.computerworlduk.com)
1 points by webmink 16y ago|0 comments
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Non-Centralised Infrastructure - a partial list(blogs.computerworlduk.com)
2 points by webmink 16y ago|1 comments
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Cloud Computing Risks Demonstrated By Wikileaks Experience(blogs.computerworlduk.com)
3 points by webmink 16y ago|0 comments
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Why even Wikileaks' opponents need to defend its ability to exist(blogs.computerworlduk.com)
4 points by webmink 16y ago|0 comments
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by webmink 16y ago
Going further than that, given Google hired a number of staff that had worked on the Java implementation at Sun, and given that the head of Google was present at Sun as the Java patent-and-copyright trap was being constructed, it seems inco