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- by phik ( 2368654 )I don’t recognize the world anymore
- nonsense. lots of FOSS based software in the corporate world. Apple products are all FOSS based, fir example.
I didn’t read your comment, but I would like to know about your HOSTS file.
- by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:38PM (#59162270)
Is that actually a thing, or is he just insisting people need to use GPLv3 instead of BSD, Apache, etc.?
- Guessing it’s more consistency in application of licenses, and ensuring that code is actually properly licensed for its intended use (especially where it contains elements from other open source projects)
Is that actually a thing?
Yes, licensing, insisting that a license be published, and then following it is of course extremely important in OSS and commercial software. I’d guess he’s advocating that MS insist that projects choose a license to release software on on Github. It makes a lot of sense, since if you make it required, there’s no ambiguity.Currently, Github has this policy:
You’re under no obligation to choose a license. However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you
Which I think is the wrong policy. Don’t have a default. Force the user to choose a license, be it closed or open source.
Exactly this. By allowing a default of no license which makes default copyright law apply, this gives the impression that because the author put the code there, it isn’t a copyright violation to click a link to it.
Legally speaking, if you follow a direct link to a source file, you have committed a copyright violation at the same time as just finding out what you did was a copyright violation.
You can’t know before, and the moment you know it is too late you have already broken the law.It’s akin to silently
- by ptaff ( 165113 )
Lots of code on public repos like github has no specified license. That makes that code risky to reuse as the legality of that reuse is unspecified. github should force project owners to pick at least one license for each of their projects to remove that ambiguity.
Better license hygiene? It’s when you put off bathing for so long, even the cards in your license start to stink, so you wash them, but now your license smells better than you do.
- Your Private Server behind your DSL modem can easily host a few FOSS projects. All you need is an RPI, a dyndns name and the git server or subversion. stop carrying your IP to Dollarsoft!
Eh, underrated even if sarcastic.
- All completely serious. Get your own internet server. Stop using the WallSt controlled mainframe style services.
- Where do you live ? Pyongyang? Here in Germany we only need to work around changing IP address every 24 hours. free dyndns. does this nicely.
- Everyting M$ does is teh evil!!11 Clearly they brought RMS there to bribe and or brainwash him!!!!111
Uncomfortable facts (Score:5, Insightful)
by halivar ( 535827 ) <bfelger.gmail@com> on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#59162330)1. Microsoft is the largest contributor for open source.
2. The Linux kernel includes code contributed by Microsoft.
3. The Halloween email was twenty years ago. No one on the email chain works at MS, anymore.
4. FOSS beat Microsoft. SCO is dead. The genie cannot be rebottled. Rather than shakes their fists at the sky, MS chose to adapt to the new landscape. This has understandably robbed some people of much-anticipated schadenfreude, as MS seems to be doing quite well.
5. It will never be the year of Linux on the desktop, because the desktop is not important.- Much like server, the desktop has even moved to the cloud. The desktop itself is almost irrelevant anymore.
- Get yourself debian+xfce and stop being a victim of the Soros section of the internet. Almost every DSL modem can facilitate a server. That is what the internet was designed for. Not for being a huge WallSt Mainframe.
What really hurt Microsoft was the World Wide Web.
Microsoft Strangle Hold on its customer base was the fact that 99% of all software available worked on Windows. And it had nearly 95% of the computer user market. However as the Web Evolved from a document delivery system, to an Application Thick Client Solution. More and more “Applications” became websites. Windows 95, was designed around the idea that people would use MSN as their ISP, to compete against AOL and Prodigy. Where AOL at the time, wasn’t as- by sinij ( 911942 )Desktop is very much important to me, you insensitive clod.
The desktop has been dead for a long time.
I haven’t had a desktop computer since the early 1990s. Ever since then, only mini-towers.
5. It will never be the year of Linux on the desktop, because the desktop is not important.
Agreed with you right up until this one. The desktop is still very important, but it’s not as important as it used to be, especially to consumers. Smartphones, tablets, and lightweight laptops or Chromebooks are the new “personal computers”, and higher-end laptops and PC desktops are now where work gets done, content gets created, and games are played.
- These days MSFT builds keyloggers into Win10. They try to out-snoop Google. boy, get yourself debian+xfce.
- 5. It will never be the year of Linux on the desktop, because… INVIDIA fuck you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?… [youtube.com]
Microsoft is like…. (Score:4, Insightful)
by Dallas May ( 4891515 ) on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:03PM (#59162366)Microsoft is like the ex-boy friend that used to hit you 15 years ago.
You left him, and haven’t looked back.But, since then he hit bottom, went to AA, has been sober for 7 years, is holding a steady respectable job, has a new wife his own age (a woman who is intelligent and respectable in her own right), and is a deacon at a local Methodist Church.
But he did abuse you 15 years ago.
So, the question is, how much change does MS have to go through before they lose the stigma of being the company they were 15 years ago? (It’s a hard question, and I’m not sure what I think the answer should be.)
Microsoft is like the ex-boy friend that used to hit you 15 years ago.
You left him, and haven’t looked back.But, since then he hit bottom, went to AA, has been sober for 7 years, is holding a steady respectable job, has a new wife his own age (a woman who is intelligent and respectable in her own right), and is a deacon at a local Methodist Church.
You’re assuming Microsoft hasn’t done all those things, just to get the girl back. And you’re assuming once if he does, he won’t be back to being an abusive a-hole in time.
They are still creeps on the desktop. They’ve shaven and gotten a haircut in the server space, where they were at huge risk to losing even more to Linux, IMHO.
You’re assuming Microsoft hasn’t done all those things, just to get the girl back.
So the ex got a new wife in order to get the original girl back??
- by xonen ( 774419 )
Yup, i wondered such myself. Microsoft had my reasonable trust in 1993, hell, i’d even liked to work at their campus. From there on, stuff went downhill. For almost 2 decades they shown to be a wannabe evil overlord, needing all kind of superheroes to fight them.
So, what has changed since then? They embraced open source. No big deal, half the world does so.
They contributed to the Linux kernel. Sure, but only for stuff they care about, read: mostly virtual machine integration. There’s no thing as, say, a Lin - His wife helps the guy to traffic young girls to an island, where all of them meet Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton ?
- RMS’ entire schtick revolves around open hatred of Microsoft. It is kind of how he earns a living – hatred of proprietary systems. By suddenly embracing Microsoft, in effect, he would lose much of his speaking engagements and career.
- He should love Dollarsoft and all of the Soros-funded section of the Internet. These nice chaps only have the aim of total control of the populace via their mainframe style system. Then the Soviet of Mainframes can rule over these unwashed masses. All of this worked so nicely in Russia!
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