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GPL is a toxic license for lovely people
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GPLv2 is cool and good GPLv3 is very bad 
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Nov 25, 2021 04:21
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i may have linked this in the licensing thread a while back but here's a good blog post by an IP lawyer analyzing AGPL that also goes a bit into stylistic/strategic weirdness in FSF-authored licenses in general
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Nov 25, 2021 04:54
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shoeberto posted:I bought a System76 for my new gig. It's pretty good but there's totally a fan rattle that's really annoying at certain RPMs. It's also clearly some rebrand of a Chinese manufacturer but the build quality is mostly pretty solid. I've never had a laptop where the OS was this closely tied to the hardware and it's pretty cool. I think they are trying to move away from Clevo builds to some of their own now. Apparently they got enough business that they can do this. Clevo rebrands are kind of neat actually. They aren't state of the art, but "state of the art" means "impossible to repair", and these things are (comparatively) trivial to take apart. They use fairly standard parts.
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Nov 25, 2021 08:45
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Progressive JPEG posted:i may have linked this in the licensing thread a while back but here's a good blog post by an IP lawyer analyzing AGPL that also goes a bit into stylistic/strategic weirdness in FSF-authored licenses in general Enjoyed this, thanks
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Nov 25, 2021 09:12
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Poopernickel posted:GPLv2 is cool and good actually they’re both bad
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Nov 25, 2021 09:21
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Progressive JPEG posted:i mean even lenovo, who are probably still selling models with vga ports to this day, have usbc power I’ve had awful luck with the USB-C/TB ports in my T480, which has given me more problems than any computer I’ve ever had. they were replaced twice and now the main one for power stopped working again, and I’m out of the extended warranty. they’re really weak and the cable tends to fall out with the slightest budge (cable brand doesn’t matter). based on that and awful thunderbird firmware issues, I will never buy or recommend a thinkpad to anyone. I’m waiting for this to die so I can get a MacBook or maybe an XPS (which I had before and enjoyed, but 4GB ram was no longer needs suiting)
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Nov 25, 2021 10:40
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only reason i dont like kde is that they dont loving space things aargh look at how near that box is to the text it infuriates me
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Nov 25, 2021 11:58
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license chat i use MPL 2.0 Eclipse Public License is another good one if you do you not want to commit to GNU compatibility. matti fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Nov 25, 2021 |
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Nov 25, 2021 12:00
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shoeberto posted:I bought a System76 for my new gig. It's pretty good but there's totally a fan rattle that's really annoying at certain RPMs. It's also clearly some rebrand of a Chinese manufacturer but the build quality is mostly pretty solid. I've never had a laptop where the OS was this closely tied to the hardware and it's pretty cool. i hate the whole concept of branding ODM laptops and selling them, what's the point. just sell them as compal or whatever and be done with it so you don't have to plow through random tech forums to find out what ODM they used this time that's why the framework project is so good, it's an actual designed laptop with some unique features
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Nov 25, 2021 12:48
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shoeberto posted:I've never had a laptop where the OS was this closely tied to the hardware and it's pretty cool. try an apple macintosh op
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Nov 25, 2021 12:58
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 already on it op
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Nov 25, 2021 13:04
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enjoying your software rendering i guess it'll be pretty neat when they got mesa actually rendering stuff proper, and big kudos that they've gotten this far already with all the other hw stuff
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Nov 25, 2021 13:13
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lol at i use arch btw
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Nov 25, 2021 13:18
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not my pic, i'm much worse, i use debian lol https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1458473550180859908
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Nov 25, 2021 13:29
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Gentle Autist posted:try an apple macintosh op Link?
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Gentle Autist posted:try an apple macintosh op cosmic crisps are better, op
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Nov 25, 2021 16:59
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Tankakern posted:i hate the whole concept of branding ODM laptops and selling them, what's the point. just sell them as compal or whatever and be done with it so you don't have to plow through random tech forums to find out what ODM they used this time shame that intel stopped using rPGA after haswell mobile, otherwise they could even go so far as having "source your own/DIY upgrade later" available for the CPU as well as everything else
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Nov 25, 2021 17:12
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mawarannahr posted:I’ve had awful luck with the USB-C/TB ports in my T480, which has given me more problems than any computer I’ve ever had. they were replaced twice and now the main one for power stopped working again, and I’m out of the extended warranty. they’re really weak and the cable tends to fall out with the slightest budge (cable brand doesn’t matter). partner has a t480 and it works fine, he's pretty klutzy too so it feels like he would have broken it by now if it were a widespread defect tho on the flip side i'd been burned a couple times by poo poo apple hardware and thats what drove me into ThinkPad's loving tracknub arms to begin with
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Nov 25, 2021 18:28
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matti posted:license chat i use MPL 2.0 i use fafol on hobby things that aren't libraries
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Nov 25, 2021 18:31
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finally, a modern update to the wtfpl
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Nov 25, 2021 19:14
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just use bsd and act betrayed when vendors fork and don't contribute back
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Nov 25, 2021 21:35
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just use BSD and whine about how it is the clearly superior solution and ignore how the unclear licensing situation turned it into an evolutionary dead end
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Nov 25, 2021 21:41
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finally you're talking sense!
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Nov 25, 2021 22:16
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pseudorandom name posted:just use BSD and whine about how it is the clearly superior solution and ignore how the unclear licensing situation turned it into an evolutionary dead end that and the old-guard insider cabal project governance which absolutely failed at capturing the new wave of enthusiastic people flooding in looking for an open source unix to contribute to
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Nov 25, 2021 22:24
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lol cabal
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Nov 25, 2021 22:41
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alternatively, write your own unix under whatever license you want
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Nov 26, 2021 00:28
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The software freedom conservancy absolutely will take action against GPL violators. Whether it's in court, or extraordinary rendition to an undisclosed location where the abductee watches revolution OS for 120 hours in a clockwork orange type setup. Re: BSD and licensing. How much did microsoft and apple kick back to freebsd for the generous donation of a network stack and base operating system?
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Nov 26, 2021 01:01
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I'm insomniac and bored out of my mind, so have a lot of  I think there's a fundamental bit of philosophy that a lot of copyleft proponents miss (intentional or not, though I think it's mostly the latter), which is that to a lot of people working on copyfree licenses (not just BSD or MIT, but all of them), the important part isn't that someone else contributes back, that they get kick-backs, or any of a number of other reasons that copyleft proponents often talk about. Instead, it's that there should be at least one good implementation of something that should be available for everyone to use, instead of everyone having to implement their own thing - in the same vein that everyone isn't expected to be able to correctly implement cryptography. In the specific cases of Microsoft and Apple, there's some history there that I'm sure there are lot of people that don't know about, so here's the short of it: Microsoft didn't "steal" the FreeBSD stack. Spider Systems (based, at the time, in Edinburgh and which has since been swallowed up by Intel) was a company that Microsoft contracted to develop a TCP as well as a STREAMS (the native UNIX System 5 networking) stack(s). Since it's proprietary, not a whole lot is known, but from what I remember at the time, a pre-release version of one of the early products at one point got released/leaked, which didn't have symbols stripped - and from that it was learned that the TCP stack had FreeBSD headers, and a few of the userland utilities (such as tracert) had a FreeBSD license embedded in them). This, combined with Microsofts use of FreeBSD for Hotmail (because the company that owned Hotmail before Microsoft bought it used FreeBSD, until Microsoft made ISS capable of handling the load for the servers, some 5 years later) as well as the Windows Update servers, led to rumours of Microsoft using a lot more code than there's ever been any actual evidence for. As for macOS, that's got an even longer history. It all, predictably enough, starts with NeXT. For reasons forgotten to history, it integrated part of BSD out of CSRG with a Mach kernel. Then, NeXT did its NeXT thing and Steve Jobs ended up at Apple with a lot of the people who'd worked on NeXT. This led to what would eventually end up becoming Mac OS X, which was itself a remarkable shift away from Classic Mac OS, which would, partly because of previous experiments with Linux in the form of MkLinux, also not just have POSIX compatibility, but full on SUS compliance (because that was still somewhat of a selling point at that particular time). So since the developers responsible were already familiar with the Mach kernel and BSD subsystems, they yoinked code from the biggest descendant of BSD (which was and is FreeBSD), hired some of FreeBSDs developers (Jordan Hubbard being the most prominent, but others too, as well as several others later on and even as recent as just a few years ago). This leaves the question of what FreeBSD code is in macOS - and perhaps more importantly, how much of it is used. Firstly, there's a bunch of command-line userland tools (although many have been modified by Apple subsequent to being imported, and others either have been replaced or are being replaced with copyfree-alternatives). I honestly don't think these count for much, since only powerusers tend to use these, and while Apple is popular among powerusers, there are far more regular users who simply don't use the terminal. Then there's the parts of the kernel, where there are three "big" uses: the netstack (as mentioned elsewhere, because it really has been used widely), the process model, and the VFS. Obviously, the process model and VFS get used all the time, and the netstack is hardly not going to see use considering almost nobody uses any system today without networking. However, even all-told, those three parts still only account for a tiny part of XNU, and the userland utilities are only a tiny part of Darwin. There's also the elephant in the room, which is all the parts that make up macOS, which aren't part of Darwin: The entire UX in the form of Quartz (including compositing), things like Metal, Core(Video|Audio|Image|Animation|OpenGl|Graphics), the entire driver interface as well as every single driver, and too many other things to mention (if you're really curious, there's a CCC talk by "Lucy" from 2007 called Inside the Mac OS X kernel which provides more detail). Now, what has Microsoft given back, monetarily? Who knows. Probably not much. As for code, around 1300 commits - although depending on how cynical you are, you can either view this as a good thing or Microsoft having customers on their Hyper-V cloud who want to use FreeBSD. To me, it can go either way, honestly - I'll take Microsoft commits just as readily as I'll take those of anyone else, but I don't think they're doing it purely out of the goodness of their hearts (they're a big corporation, and while they have individuals who're good, it's a difficult thing to mesh). So what about Apple? Well, they haven't really sponsored much code (though that's perhaps because nobody's interested in picking through the huge changesets that result from them offering only date-based snapshots of Darwin with no VCS information). But they have given back, in the form of sponsoring a lot of conferences over the years (as in, sometimes being the primary sponsor), plus they've been instrumental in things like TrustedBSD (which has given us OpenBSM for auditing, MAC for RBAC et cetera, OpenPAM plus a bunch more things that I'm not sure Apple has been directly involved with). Oh, and they're also the primary reason why FreeBSD is almost GPL free because of LLVM - without that, FreeBSD and a lot of other software developers would still be dependent on the monoculture of GCC - and even if GCC has been enormously helpful, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that the best thing to happen to GCC was that it got some competition. (I think over 8000 bytes is enough words)
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quote:Instead, it's that there should be at least one good implementation of something that should be available for everyone to use, instead of everyone having to implement their own thing - in the same vein that everyone isn't expected to be able to correctly implement cryptography. quote:FreeBSD and a lot of other software developers would still be dependent on the monoculture of GCC
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Did you read what I posted, or just picked out a few phrases here and there? Because you're the one who asked. EDIT: Or are you just being intentionally obtuse and refusing to acknowledge that even if somehow, magically, there was nothing but copyleft software as an alternative to proprietary software, there's still legal compliance which can and does affect whether or not any copyleft software can be used? BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Nov 26, 2021 04:42
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happy thanksgiving folks. im thankful for linux, and especially for the folks at the debian project for making the best linux
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Nov 26, 2021 04:47
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I'm grateful for not having to read long BSD posts.
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Nov 26, 2021 04:58
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apple provided CUPS, which is not terrible
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Nov 26, 2021 05:01
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mycophobia posted:happy thanksgiving folks. im thankful for linux, and especially for the folks at the debian project for making the best linux
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Nov 26, 2021 05:03
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in the BSD world, backporting your changes, improvements and bugfixes is a courtesy thing and not a legal thing.
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Nov 26, 2021 05:20
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jesus wept
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Did you read what I posted, or just picked out a few phrases here and there? Because you're the one who asked. I obviously read every word. Personally I think it's really lovely of apple they can't even toss $5 or $10k to the freebsd foundation annually. Microsoft still does.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Then there's the parts of the kernel, where there are three "big" uses: the netstack (as mentioned elsewhere, because it really has been used widely), the process model, and the VFS. fyi the process model is mach tasks, not bsd they hide a lot of it underneath more abstract libraries, including ones which provide traditional unix interfaces, but mach IPC primitives and the mach process (task) model are the base layer for a lot of stuff in macOS
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I've been hit by the onerous requirements of the GPL myself. Once I distributed an easy to install .deb with a single line change to acpid for a lovely chromebook with a broken lid switch. I provided a .diff instead of the full source. I did three folk dances, and spent five days unshaved and unshowered. It was all forgiven.
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