I take it you're responding from the lens of using this software in a corporate setting? Otherwise there is functionally no difference in the license vs OSI-compatible open-source licenses unless I'm missing something big which very well could be the case
The company has far outgrown Linus's ability to run it. Half the shit he says on the WAN show I cringe at as someone who's done corporate management / systems consulting for the last decade+. I get the feeling he really is unable to separate his ego from his corporate responsibilities and this inability seeps through in all their content. Just take the Billet Labs fiasco as an example, he was so convinced he knew better that he felt insulted on the WAN show that his conclusion was brought into question when it was shown his methodology was abhorrently flawed; or look to his and the entire team's proclivity to misappropriate inventory to their homes or the projects that personally benefit him and his family - I would hate to be his personal attorney as any litigation hitting LMG is sure to hit him personally as there is ample evidence of the corporate veil being pierced, and JFC why is the entire consumer tech market perpetually in the mindset of a horny 14 year old? Talk about a hostile work environment.
I found it hilarious when he was discussing Blizzard and their actions to be egregious when the vibe at LTT honestly doesn't seem all that different - he seems to be barrelling toward following in their footsteps
Got a Brother color laser all-in-one and am never looking back. I just hope Brother's shareholders don't put pressure on them to take up these shitty practices. They already have some limited / overrideable DRM on toner and that's already a step too far IMO
Personally, I find non-commercial, source-available licenses consistent with the community-driven aspect of open-source and less restrictive than more aggressive copy-left licenses like GPL. I find that it allows persons, groups, and corporations to pursue additional business models other than support/services to monetize their work while still ensuring that individuals in the community are able to benefit from the work the sponsor and others are doing.
I understand the concerns this raises especially for the use of open-source tools in the commercial space and hope these source-available licenses are used sparingly and strategically (like in situations like Elastic where Amazon was profiting off Elastic while competing with them and ultimately not contributing back to the project which put the project's funding at risk)
Three new countries joining NATO apparently means US hegemony is collapsing all while dozens of countries sign new agreements to donate old weapons and buy shiny new ones from the US so I guess our hard power is collapsing too using the logic of OP...
The Ukraine war has been one of the biggest boons to western nation's influence in Europe
I'd imagine the pulseaudio approach would suffer from lag and inability to sync between devices. That's something that seemingly only Google and Sonos have solved (collaboratively at that - part of the source of the drama between the two in court).
Any z-wave or ZigBee lock like those from Schlage are great. You can then integrate it into Home Assistant where there are great integrations like keymaster that make it super simple to do management like what you've mentioned
A private business taking action on their platform is very different than the government mandating censorship of criticism directed at said government...
I'd say sure thing, so long as payment is upfront