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Bradley M. Kuhn at 2013-11-22T00:11:11Z
I'm still admittedly baffled by people who think GPL is worse than proprietary licensing. I can truly understand, even if I don't agree with, that GPL and proprietary are the same since they have requirements on the license and the license is conditional on certain actions.
But, to claim GPL is worse than proprietary. I think it's completely illogical. What am I missing?
(Of course, I probably shouldn't even think that deeply about this. The guy I chatted with on IRC today who told me that also indicated that his company could sue copyright holders for including what he believed (incorrectly, IMO) was GPL-incompatible code from a third party. Not clear how his company has a cause of action. That seems illogical too -- or at least uninformed about copyright law.)
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bkuhn one issue is that the GPL is 3 or so licenses that are similar at a distance (2 of which are widely used) while as the FSF itself has noted, 'proprietary' covers countless licenses (all the more so if 'proprietary' is used to mean 'nonconformant to the Free Software Definition'). Easy to see how a particular user might prefer a particular proprietary license to the GPL even assuming absence of superstition, irrationality, etc.
On the issue of cause of action for upstream inclusion of GPL-incompatible code, perhaps he is thinking of implied warranty of noninfringement (see e.g. UCC 2-312; cf. copyleft-next 0.3.0 sec. 12). Breach of warranty claim not inconceivable; seems to be commonly assumed that the warranty disclaimers found in most free software licenses (which typically don't explicitly exclude non-infringement) are sufficient. Under US law though we're already assuming a lot, including that the company was sued for copyright infringement by the other copyright holders, i.e. the copyright holders of the GPL-incompatible code. Kind of far-fetched, to say the least, but I wouldn't say illogical or uninformed necessarily. Slightly more conceivable if the non-GPL code is proprietary (usually when we talk about GPL compatibility we are assuming a free software universe).Richard Fontana at 2013-11-27T20:57:17Z
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OpenDesk https://www.opendesk.cc/Eternal Tyro likes this.
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Marco Amadori at 2012-12-15T23:51:25+00:00
!Python for Browsers http://ur1.ca/c2k4oNick Daly, chillkroete, Jamasi, debexpert and 5 others likes this.
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Now all we need is pygame :)
Is it a Python interpreter written in #JavaScript?! Quite cool, if so...chillkroete at 2012-12-19T20:32:23+00:00
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JavaScript is cool. If you look at it for the first time you think "okay, sweet". And then somebody builds damn cool stuff with it...chillkroete at 2012-12-19T22:24:47+00:00
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@chillkroete Who learnt Javascript as a thingy to create fancy page effects can't accept it grew much more powerful than that.Bradley M. Kuhn at 2012-12-13T01:19:42+00:00
#Microsoft once called my work "Unamerican cancer". !Canonical calls it "McCarthyism" ur1.ca/byl1i Wealthy people sure do like name-calling!Stav Prodromou, Eternal Tyro, Bauer Crowley, Inc., Rob Myers and 6 others likes this.
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I can't help thinking this is an example of what this article describes: http://ur1.ca/c2v37[struggling with threading here, apologies for all the attempts if you saw them]
"#Microsoft once called my work 'Unamerican cancer'… !Ubuntu's !Canonical calls it 'McCarthyism…ranting & being a dick'" http://ur1.ca/byl1i
opensource.com at 2012-07-26T17:15:39+00:00
#opensource for MBAs: A primer | http://red.ht/OcY3w7Eternal Tyro likes this.
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opensource.com at 2012-08-02T15:38:53+00:00
Interested in what\'s going on behind the scenes at opensource.com? Maybe contribute? Join our community list: red.ht/LFCNxaEternal Tyro likes this.
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Patrick McFarland at 2012-08-11T08:05:46+00:00
Fix bash rc file insanity http://identi.ca/url/73130371 !linuxEternal Tyro likes this.
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apparently moved from gist to this repo http://identi.ca/url/73139972
Command Line Magic at 2012-08-10T14:11:57+00:00
http://bit.ly/NQEynS # Linus Torvald's great smackdownsAlexandro P., Eternal Tyro likes this.
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@climagic And still, Linus is a saint (albeit a more foulmouthed one) compared with Richard Stallman: http://stallman.org/archives
ஆமாச்சு at 2012-08-10T15:53:35+00:00
அறியாத ஆங்கிலச் சொல்லைக் கண்டால் டிக்சனரி பார்க்க மனம் நாடுது! நல்ல தமிழ்ச் சொல்லைக் கண்டால் எழுதியவனைச் சாடுது! !தமிழன்மனம்Eternal Tyro likes this.
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Command Line Magic at 2011-12-13T09:42:49+00:00
repeatchar() { printf "%0$2d" | tr 0 $1; } # Create a function that will repeat character $1 $2 times. ie. repeatchar g 8 = ggggggggEternal Tyro likes this.
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Neil Hodges at 2011-12-13T11:52:36+00:00
Hey look, a tiling window manager written in !Python!: http://qtile.org/Eternal Tyro likes this.
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How to Git pretty : http://ur1.ca/5mp7zEternal Tyro likes this.
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great ilustration.
Sarven Capadisli at 2011-04-19T15:14:03+00:00
My interest in your product stops at the point where I have to click on a PDF link on your Web site to learn more about it.Eternal Tyro, Tabitha Roder, ostfriesenmärz, diablomarcus and 2 others likes this.
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@csarven is a PDF link a security risk?
@csarven @wiccanhart1 @stephwho: I call it bad information design. https://identi.ca/notice/70475433
Jono Bacon at 2010-11-10T23:05:21+00:00
Want to come and work at Canonical to make LibreOffice in Ubuntu rock? http://is.gd/gUPiA #ubuntu #libreofficeEternal Tyro, J.R. Freeman Jr., Michel Alexandre Salim likes this.
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