how does that make the project any less open-source?
what’s next, shaming project owners for living in a house that they pay for with a corporate job?
we get it, you hate capitalism, but that doesn’t mean other people want to go live in the woods too… gotta be realistic :)
If like me you were wondering if MS actually provided their own parsers for their Office file formats… they did not.
It seems to just be a bunch of random pyxyz 3rd-party support libraries all mashed together.
all of this is true with literally any company.
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you can’t know that
I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not “remove” any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.
That doesn’t invalidate my statement though.
freedom TO vs freedom FROM
I was more referring to mainline specifically, otherwise your chances of having many people actually benefit from your changes without a lot of effort is small IMO.
And here I am looking to move away from Linux after they started rejecting submissions for political reasons.
I still don’t think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country’s laws (USA).
I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn’t have this problem. Do any even exist?
go against their spirit
I think this is more of a failure of the license itself. It’s not a good look to allow something explicitly and then go “no not like that!”
For professionals used to Photoshop, yes it is that bad. People want what’s familiar because they’re used to it and they’re busy or lazy. They don’t want to learn something new.
If GIMP wanted to increase their userbase by a million overnight, they would make it look more like Photoshop.
The problem is they and many current users are huge FOSS zealots and see this kind of thing akin to selling your soul to the devil.
Eh… I understand exactly where they’re coming from. If you’re trying to make money with a product then this is something that can happen. You can argue all day long that it’s no longer technically “open source”, but IMO for 99% of usecases (anything that’s not a Confluence integration), it still is… even still non-copyleft.
Of course there will still be people that argue open source is antithetical to capitalism in general… but not everyone agrees with you.
except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.
they have more subscribers than Apple TV+
I think if syncing of (at least) upstream histories between clones was done automatically, they might consider that more in-line with their definition of decentralized.
Also kudos to both of you for communicating your differences properly without resorting to arguments.
I feel like so much of the arguing and trolling nowadays is simply due to a difference in subjective definitions and people not being able to calmly communicate that with each other.
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It shows up exactly the same for all the revisions though.
From what I have seen, FSF has their head so far up their own ass that there’s no point.