I’d look further into that bug because it’s not happening on my end.
Interested in Linux, FOSS, data storage systems, unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.
I help maintain Nixpkgs.
https://github.com/Atemu
https://reddit.com/u/Atemu12 (Probably won’t be active much anymore.)
I’d look further into that bug because it’s not happening on my end.
Drive is under a different org:
Oh I’m sure your health insurance would love to know the condition of your teeth to increase your rates.
parents are a motor to innovation
Absolutely. No parents -> No children -> No innovation.
Old reddit absolutely had its issues. The new and newnew design is just decisively worse however.
If you need languages other than “western European languages”, you’re SOL with this offline translator; whether you use it within Firefox or the extension.
Certainly better than the U.S. in that regard but I wouldn’t consider Germany “resilient” either.
That’s the hard part: Who has claims to how much of the license fees. That’s an extremely tough question to answer because it necessitates quantification of code contributions which is far from a solved problem.
No, they’ve got the same information as us. That’s why they explicitly say:
when Covid pandemic lockdowns and social distancing appeared to have halted circulation
It is still speculation, not data.
I’d tend to agree with the speculation but it’s still speculation.
I consider those measures to be included in “lockdown” but it’s besides the point: The paper contains no evidence that those measures made it disappear, just that it disappeared.
It wont take years. You’ll be able to hack basic stuff together in a week max.
What takes years of experience is time efficient programming aswell as producing maintainable code.
That article is interesting and important but it does not show any causal links between lockdowns and the disappearance.
It is, for example, also possible that it was merely displaced by SARS-CoV2.
It’s basically a “free for personal use” license.
Not sure I 100% agree on that.
If there was a license that i.e. required a certain percentage of all revenue that can be attributed to the usage of the software, a for-profit company could utilise it without paying a cent if they used it without generating revenue with it.
I see you quoting “Free as in Freedom” but you seem to imply that FOSS also means “Free as in gratis”. That is not true. FOSS does not grant you the freedom of receiving everything for free (gratis).
restrictions like that aren’t compatible with the FOSS freedoms
They are.
FOSS freedoms are about what you’re allowed to do with the code, not about providing those privieges for free (as in: gratis) to everyone.
It’s whether the freedoms are attainable at all; in proprietary software, the freedoms are not attainable, no matter how much you pay for it. Paying for the privilege of being granted those freedoms does not stand in direct conflict with FOSS IMV as long as it is reasonably possible to attain them.
Where it gets complex is transitive freedoms. If I sell you my FOSS program and grant you all the freedoms that includes the freedom to grant those freedoms to others. Such “licensing proxies” are impossible to forbid without limiting essential freedoms of FOSS.
One possible method that sprung to my mind is to only allow granting the rights on modified copies (“modification” meaning original work atop of the licensed work) or even just the modifications themselves. This would technically restrict an essential freedom but I don’t consider those to be set in stone either.
It would be extremely difficult to implement this in a manner that actually makes the freedoms attainable and there are tons of complexities in this that I’ve glossed over but I don’t see a licensing model that requires monetary payment in exchange for the freedoms as fundamentally wrong or incompatible with the spirit of F(L)OSS.
It’s clearly a license fee. I don’t see how a license fee stands in conflict with FOSS though. FOSS is Free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.
The godfather of all FLOSS licenses himself (GPL) contains explicit terms to allow license fees too.
Their concern is obviously solving the dire problem of FOSS maintainers not getting compensated for their work, not getting rich themselves.
The reason given is also great.
This wouldn’t really solve the issue as the user could rather simply create as many accounts as they like to circumvent per-account limits.
The usual; check the server and client logs.