QuazarOmega @ QuazarOmega @lemy.lol

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So what was the right shortcut for the screenshot in the end?

Fully agreed, though I must say this, if you truly believe in the spirit of free software and, let's also be honest and add, can afford not to bend for the convenience of others (maybe you get funded through donations and/or grants), then you have the opportunity to make a piece of software so good, be it application or library, that it'll be hard for competition to come up with something better and proprietary, that's how it is for those instances where companies were sued for using them and not providing the source, e.g. Linux and John Deere is the last I remember.
It is that nature of copyleft that the more it spreads, the more it will enable for a culture shift, when people are faced with the inevitable conflict of the idea of keeping everything behind closed doors and not being allowed to if they want to take the easy way out, they might give it an actual thought or they'll try to be unfair and use without giving back, showing their true greedy colours. I'm not a purist by any means, as much as I'd like to, but that is the kind of world I'd like to live in

Ok that's good, I was thinking that since Rossman had thrown the term around many times in the video

Interesting, I understand where they're coming from, but as others have said, I still feel like it's shady to keep calling it "open source" when open source is already well defined.
I think they have a noble mission, yet I can't really say I like their means. Maybe in that "finding a middle ground", since they're mostly making consumer software, a lot of that payment part could have been covered by simply providing their releases under a payment on the app distribution channels (Play Store, their website, others?), most people that would pay would do so to avoid going through hoops to get the app for free through other means. That way they could have afforded to be actually open source. Maybe it wouldn't be as effective though, I can't know for sure, at the end of the day it's a battle of ideals

Oi mate, you got a loicense for that dick?

Delete this 😭

About the part on SaaS, the outcry is solely because the licences used by those projects weren't approved neither by OSI or the FSF, they have clauses that specifically affect the economic aspect, and that can never fit in with either movement, but it is exactly that problem that the software authors want to tackle, preventing big corporations that already have the means to deliver a large scale service based on their software from making even more money than they already have, even if those corporations published possible modifications, the author would benefit little, because they most likely won't have the infrastructure to run it on at the same scale and profiting from it.

Hot take: the real issue there is that those authors clearly don't care for free software, because if they did, they'd have started off with AGPL or the like, instead they choose MIT exactly because of the possible economic prospect for themselves, when at some point they could implement vendor lock-in by baiting the users into believing that it was a community-run project at the start. Don't get me wrong, they deserve to be paid for what they do, and corporations dropping by to profit from all that hard work feels wrong (but not illegal, and so it is fair), but exploiting the visibility and help of the community to reach popularity and credibility and eventually going private is a major dick move

Aww best wishes!

Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux

Soon you should convince her to marry you (if that's your thing)

You have to immerse in the web

CEO of Freedom

Lmaoo, sign me up

Last I heard about was it when it was officially launched months back.
I gave it a try, it was immediately noticeable that it was worse than VSCode for me, so I just dropped it, besides, I still don't understand the appeal of an app that still has to grow, but is just a sister to VSCode, so it pretty much won't bring unique value to the table now or in the future.
It's actually open source, yes, that's great, but that's why I'm using the open build VSCodium and it works nicely. It's the only reason where I still have hopes it might be interesting at some point, since the majority of the workforce behind VSCode is, of course, Microsoft, the direction it'll take will always be driven by business, and it does show when the last few months (or more, I don't remember) the changelogs have been increasingly featuring AI integration updates, to the point a few releases had like 99% of just that, especially Copilot, that I mostly don't care for. At least some of those include creation of APIs that can be used by other extensions, but still, there's requested features waiting there that aren't about AI and for that sole fact they are just put in second place, not taken care of up to years. Perhaps a project with an actually open governance can work more towards what the community cares about, so, personally, I'd give it a few years to try it again and see how it's come along

It's just an analysis of the state of things, I'm sure they don't say that to mean "everything should be done as I like it", but observing how poor the decisions of a wave of devs have been in regards to licencing, most likely for the simple reason they just go with what feels more open, rather than delving into how and why copyleft is a better safeguard for the good of the entire community

I love that you went through the effort of editing Stallman in and the text on the back, hope you've done the honors in GIMP (Great Intellectual Meme Picture)

Damn, I tux rolled a masterpiece today

Not judging but just fyi, that's like the worst of both worlds tbh. The point of installing independently of the base system is that the system is immutable and easy to roll back to a previous state, if you use a mutable system and also install packages with other means, you're working around a limitation that isn't even there and wasting more space to get almost none of the benefits (aside from easier permission control for Flatpaks)

Must be gay or European!

That's https://hackertyper.com/ that I know of

When did you get so tasteful?

I see, thanks, I didn't know that!