If they really wanted to be a team player, they wouldn’t be clearly avoiding the GPL. Valve are being better. When a company is going out their way to not have to contribute it is because there is stuff they don’t want to. Same with Apple and Sun before them, and endless others. If the BSD ideal worked, the BSDs would be the biggest Unix like distros community. The whole reason copyleft exists is because of the “tragedy of the commons” BSD keeps suffering from. Even if a few companies contribute some of it back, some times.

Does happen though. Better to have the option and not often use it, than not have the option at all.

You can look it and go “yeah, it is shit, but I see what it is doing, it is better done like this” and push that upstream. Saves time reverse engineering.

Even if they did (I think they did) it has to be compatible with when they did. So it undeniable BSD helped TCP/IP rule them all.

Well there was a few before GNU came along. Including versions of UNIX itself. It’s just GNU was free, and then, because of contributions, became better. LLVM was originally something the emulation world was into. It meant your JIT could be cross platform. That how I encountered it. It became something for the permissive/coportates to fight GCC later. Having actual competition has made GCC better and it hasn’t lost to Clang/LLVM. The closed stuff didn’t really compete as much just lock people in so didn’t have to.

The TCP/IP stack is a good example where permissive is helpful. Getting a protocol stack adopted. In a world of a mix of open and closed, permissive can paper over cracks.

There basically isn’t FreeBSD do for gaming as their work is locked away and not shared. If there was no BSD, Sony would have been forced to use a copyleft OS, or make their own. There was a time, a long time ago, where NetBSD was used in routers, etc. But Linux hardware support got to be so much better than NetBSDs, it got to hard to not use it. The more who used, and where forced to open their work, the better Linux got. Today it’s all Linux.

Worth pointing out Oracle/Sun and IBM and OpenOffice. Before the buyout, Sun were changing the OpenOffice license to permissive in a version they would sell to IBM who used the code for their closed Lotus Office. This could be done as OpenOffice had a contributor lience agreement where copyright was handed over. So Sun had all the copyright, so could relience at will. When Oracle bought Sun, it was the final straw. So LibreOffice was born from the copyleft version, without copyright ownership, so locked open. All the development moved there. Oracle relicensed OpenOffice to permissive, and tried donating the project to Apache, but no one cared. It’s been a husk for well over a decade now. And thing good can be copied straight into LibreOffice, but not the other way round. The free money for OpenOffice is over for Oracle, as is the cheap code for IBM. LibreOffice healthier than OpenOffice ever was.

Was thinking of the Trump assassination attempts. Though it nearly always a rightwing but jobs, even when it is a rightwinger being killed.

I’d say America is market dumping AI. It’s all money put into companies burning through money to try and capture market share.

Next supprise will be he is actually a crazy ringwing nut job who is upset she said something that was not right wing enough!

That seams to be the pattern of attempts on rightwing politicians’ lives.

Commercial closed source loses because of the profit motive to cut corners and make anti-features. Plus little to no independent peer review. Also legacy stuff can’t just be recompiled or ported by anyone, so ABI has to be stable for a long time. Even new stuff, can’t be all compiled to the same one version of every lib, so basically ever program has it’s own version each lib it uses.

Plus they have a big user base locked in, so they have to take whatever they are given. So motivation to be good is low.

Just so many reasons!

Stop letting foreigner interests buy our politicians and media? They don’t have our best interests at heart.

Age verification is really just about identity verification. “Show us your papers” version of the internet.

My head already has:

• LVM - Logical Volume Management
• LLVM - Low Level Virtual Machine

LLM keeps keep corrupted in my mouth by those two.

Agreed. Do all the things!

Completely agree, but I don’t see that as either or. We need both. This is the coolest summer we might have in our life times. I’m genuinely concerned we are getting ready fast enough of what is coming. I mean it could swing the other way if the gold stream stops, or we need to deal with crazy cold, and maybe crazy hot.

We know this is the norm for summer now and only going to get worse. We can’t rebuilt all our buildings for this new climate, but we can retrofit active cooling. We need a nation program of ACs for hospitals and schools. 25 years is a target far to far into the future.

Aircon is an air to air heatpump. Normally they can run in either direction.

That is also because we let the companies get too big. We need to break them up. The market is completely dysfunctional. It is feudalism right now.

There are, but the market is rigged by monopolists. And things like banks increasingly require apps that won’t even run on customer Android ROMs easily.

The regulators are needed here.