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by zxzax 5y ago
If you're suggesting that this is done out of selfishness or intellectual fervor then I don't think that's true. I wouldn't say they "prefer" it but it's certainly easier and more economical for a skilled
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by zxzax 5y ago
>In a typical OSS project, no one can give orders. The programmers ignore any good design suggestions because they don’t recognize those, and implement their own crappy ideas instead. Sometimes while arrogantly dunking on the designer wh
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't mean modules installed from cpan, this is specifically for things like Perl and Python modules packaged in Debian. On purpose, there is usually no way to install more than one version of those with the system package manager. M
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by zxzax 5y ago
That is going back to the same issues with containers, where everything works just fine... as long as you build it from your own statically-configured repo and you rebuild the whole system every update. It's useless once you try to ins
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by zxzax 5y ago
>If one program on your system depends on a quirk of libfoobar-1.0.3, and another program on your system depends on a quirk of libfoobar-1.0.4, you're fucked. You can't have both programs on your system, and Linux distributors
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by zxzax 5y ago
Again, musescore may already be involved with the CCP for contractual reasons. Basically all companies who do business in China are involved with them in some way. These things happen for reasons beyond their control, e.g. an investor sells
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by zxzax 5y ago
Again, they may be under a non-negotiable contract with a government to say that. The replies further down the issue seem to suggest that is the case. I don't defend the actions of the parties responsible -- But the fact is if there ar
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by zxzax 5y ago
If the complaint is as easily dismissable as you say it is, without apparently even needing the consult of a lawyer experienced in Chinese law, then it seems no harm was done. The repository is still up months later, so that's where I&
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by zxzax 5y ago
Maybe the company has more information than you do, we don't know that. I certainly hope anyone in open source feels safe to call the police when a criminal violation is happening, regardless of what it is. Again we can debate individu
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by zxzax 5y ago
This may have been an accident where the legal notice was sent out before taking the API offline. If that's the case I agree they messed up. The DMCA may not apply here.
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by zxzax 5y ago
It's my understanding that Github also operates in China and has to follow Chinese law, so that Chinese citizens are allowed to use it. Maybe you can advise on Chinese law? I don't see why it's not right to get the police inv
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by zxzax 5y ago
One, it's possible the API was being used illegally. If that's the issue then that should be what's discussed, but let's save that for up thread. Two, the DMCA seems to not apply here, if this is a Chinese citizen enforc
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by zxzax 5y ago
I think you may have missed some comments farther down the issue chain: >If MuseScore was not acquired and continued down the current path, it would have been already shut down by now. This is what many people do not understand. MuseScor
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by zxzax 5y ago
If you are committing crimes in China, the police (i.e. the Chinese government) will find you and stop you. I don't know why this is a point of contention. That is a fact. If the API was protected in any way, the usage can fall under a
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by zxzax 5y ago
If you do illegal things, the authorities will get involved. That's how that works.
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by zxzax 5y ago
The copyright holders should just upload the sheet music to a different website. There is no requirement for anyone to redistribute a piece of Creative Commons content for free. That's true even with the NC licenses, in that case, the
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by zxzax 5y ago
I think the wording of that email is bad, but your assessment of the situation is incorrect. The threat of legal action is real and it comes from the copyright holders. The company can't do anything about that, they are being threatene
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by zxzax 5y ago
I mean yes, you are forced to accept the preferred pronouns when referring to any person. Where is that not already an expectation? When I was young, there was a particularly tall and broad-shouldered girl in one of my classes that some of
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by zxzax 5y ago
But these are personal things that everyone gets dictate for themselves. You get to specify what your pronouns are too.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>The power is theirs. You're right but I think that's kind of beside the point -- they didn't have to use that power. >"a list of funny names" is in any way similar to endorsing genocide. I would say they are
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by zxzax 5y ago
Well, you're always bound to an obligation to be professional at work. If someone gets a legal name change, you would be expected to use the new name. Even if you thought that new name was funny, you'd be expected not to laugh at
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by zxzax 5y ago
To give another opinion, I also thought GNOME 3 was not good, until around a few years ago. It's a lot better since then, they really ironed out a lot of the issues so you see the contributions start to raise up again recently. The ext
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by zxzax 5y ago
>Not only is there widespread assumption of racism being the motivation (despite little or no evidence of that) It's hard to say what all the issues of individual motivation are in every case, but there is evidence that racism plays
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by zxzax 5y ago
I think you're just illustrating the point. It's okay to address issues with racial bias in SAT questions. Those things can still be racist (maybe not even intentionally so) and worth addressing despite there being worse racism so
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by zxzax 5y ago
Then what's the problem?
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by zxzax 5y ago
I assure you I was never complicit.
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by zxzax 5y ago
How? Most people who ride a train didn't also build that train.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Follow up: It looks like musl has been willing to carry those shims https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2019/08/08/4
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by zxzax 6y ago
Why would they? That wouldn't really help anybody, it would make the most sense to put those shims in a separate library, so any glibc consumer can use them. I'd expect the shim would also be useful to getting glibc consumers runn
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by zxzax 6y ago
That comment suggests that patches will be accepted to support musl, and it links to a merged PR where the commit message is quite literally "fix compile errors on musl"

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