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tpush··on I hacked macOS
It's a loss for both parties, no?
tpush··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
No, this is not true at all.
tpush··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
Quite literally non of what you say is true.

The state of HN on nutrition discourse is completely screwed.

tpush··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
You're being downvoted and the replies to are condescending, but you are actually completely correct and the replies exhibit misinformed groupthink. Goes to show how powerful narratives being pushed YouTube personalities et al can be.
tpush··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
6g per 100g is totally fine.
tpush··on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
No, that doesn't work. You can't retroactively change a license like that. What could happen is that future versions get licensed differently (if either all contributors agree, the project used a CLA or is permissively licensed).

Either way however then you could either stop using it or fork the project.

tpush··on The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?
Why shouldn't you be using port 25? You need that if you want to receive email on your own mail server.
tpush··on GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
> I've yet to see an Apple user who doesn't install brew as a first step before doing anything with their computer.

Most Apple users don't even know what brew is, and I'd be willing to bet that most devs using Macs don't install it either.

Anyway, the larger point that gnome can't succeed because it doesn't offer "choice" is nonsense.

tpush··on Rethinking Window Management
That's on Apple for not supporting WebM in Safari.
tpush··on Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
Off topic: Mother Theresa wasn't a particularly great person.
tpush··on What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD (2021)
macOS and its derivatives are not a BSD.
tpush··on ChromiumOS Developer Guide, Programming languages and style
What choices are backwards?
tpush··on Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora into Microsoft Windows
No, data collection ought to always be based on informed consent. A default enabled checkbox that can easily be skipped over does not constitute informed consent.

I agree that opt-in telemetry however is useless.

Thus, the only ethical and useful option is forced choice; i.e. present the user with two unselected options where a decision between them must be made.

This is e.g. how Apple designed its usage data option for the Apple TV, AFAIK. Two unselected options, given equal weight and styling etc.

tpush··on Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora into Microsoft Windows
Opt-out telemetry is indeed awful, no matter how righteous one feels in the cause to get it.
tpush··on Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government
Twitter is not a Nazi hellscape.
tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
The spirit of the GPL is the user being able to exercise the four freedoms, not more nor less. Red Hat's EULA allows that; your version doesn't.
tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
I'm not nitpicking, what I've said is the difference between GPL compliance and not. This next version of yours is different to Red Hat's EULA in the same way.
tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
Your version rescinds freedom 4 upon using an updated version. Red Hat's EULA doesn't do that.
tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
No, I didn't. I'm not sure where you get that from?

Anyway, Red Hat's EULA doesn't restrict freedom 4. You asserted an alternative formulation where it does infringe to be equivalent.

I reject that equivalence assertion. Does that make it clear?

tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
No, I'm saying your formulation doesn't match Red Hat's EULA.
tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
I don't see how that is equivalent to what Red Hat is doing. They never restrict your freedom 4 with their EULA. Only availability of future binaries. All already received binaries have their licenses intact and unrestricted, even if you break the EULA.
tpush··on libjpeg-turbo 3.0 has been released, and why there may never be a 3.1
Monetization of open source only really works if

a) the non-commercial usage is restricted, so there's a reason to buy a commercial license, and

b) The copyright is assigned to a singular person or entity so there's no confusion as the recipient of money.

Sadly both of these things conflict with Open Source either definitionally ("no restrictions on use") or in spirit ("single copyright holder/CLA means no or an exploited community").

tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
Red Hat does all that and beyond pretty much better than any other companies out there.
tpush··on How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community
That comparison doesn't work in exactly the way that illustrates Red Hat's compliance with the GPL.

Yes, if the consequence of excercising freedom is death(or imprisonment) then you aren't actually free, because killing (or imprisonment) stops you from excercising freedom. Red Hat terminating your license does not stop you from excercising the freedom the GPL gives you.

tpush··on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat
That's not the consensus and "minimal" compliance is not a thing.
tpush··on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat
What is the use case for needing to test stuff in RHEL that isn't an Enterprise App where you want/need to buy a license anyway?

Like, why do you care about RHEL at all in a way that isn't covered by CentOS Stream?

tpush··on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat
Red Hat supplies the source to everyone their distributing the binaries to, no violation here.
tpush··on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat
Why not just test your stuff on CentOS Stream or even just Fedora?

RHEL is for big business having bespoke applications; unless you need the stability nobody expects normal open source devs to make RHEL their testbed.

tpush··on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat
No it cannot.

On one side your Red Hat:

- takes non commercial open source and does integration and sells support. Also contributes to a megaton of open source projects across all layers of Linux.

The other you have the rebuilds:

- take Red Hat's commercial but open source work

- does no integration work whatsoever, since RHEL's already done that

- trivial contributions to almost no open source projects that aren't only necessary for their position as a clone

- undercuts RHEL in support offering since they don't have to do practically anything themselves.

So yeah, RHEL is an excellent citizen of open source and the others are just parasitic freeloaders.

tpush··on Rocky strikes back at Red Hat
Red Hat's EULA does not violate the GPL and what Oracle does is obviously wrong, it's parasitic and in the long term will kill RHEL (and thus also Oracle's version).
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