Posts made by wharrgarbl
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@Jaloopa You may call it "libre software" too
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@blakeyrat I don't deny some free software has bugs, I just value my freedom more.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@LB_ said in How did you start hating opensource?:
the first to create something that works well enough will deter everyone else from making something better from scratch when they could just use something that already exists and apply their own workarounds and fixes as needed.
E_NOREPRO
Something as simple as json parsing has dozens of different competing libraries.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@anonymous234 said in How did you start hating opensource?:
And he refused, out of some silly and wrong philosophical ideal. And everyone is worse off. That ideal made the world worse under the pretense of making the world better.
GPL libraries are a competitive advantage for free software over unfree ones, and as an incentive for you to write free software.
It's unfortunate that most free software libraries use the LGPL that isn't viral.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@blakeyrat said in How did you start hating opensource?:
The bewilderment is that he users of the product are the ones who suffered here. Because his company couldn't acquire the library, the feature was canned, the users get a worse product. The money is completely incidental to the WTF.
Some unfree software got one feature less, cry me a river. If you cared about your users you would respect their freedoms.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@lordofduct said in How did you start hating opensource?:
Fuck... what else is unethical?
From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.en.html
Other kinds of works are also used for practical activities, including recipes for cooking, educational works such as textbooks, reference works such as dictionaries and encyclopedias, fonts for displaying paragraphs of text, circuit diagrams for hardware for people to build, and patterns for making useful (not merely decorative) objects with a 3D printer. Since these are not software, the free software movement strictly speaking doesn't cover them; but the same reasoning applies and leads to the same conclusion: these works should carry the four freedoms.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
From the FSF's website:
We campaign for these freedoms because everyone deserves them. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them. When users don't control the program, we call it a “nonfree” or “proprietary” program. The nonfree program controls the users, and the developer controls the program; this makes the program an instrument of unjust power.
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as > you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By > > doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access > to the source code is a precondition for this.
A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
@blakeyrat You just pulled it straight from Machiavelli book. The ends doesn't justify the means. Yes, your software is unethical.
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RE: How did you start hating opensource?
If you're going to write unethical software that doesn't respect user's freedoms, you have no business using GPL licensed libraries and nobody cares with your opinion. It's that simple.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
He has been, for decades. This guy has been chasing him around for a long time, hassling him like this. Buzz finally had enough.
He could just come clean and admit that landing on the moon was a lie.
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RE: Would anyone be interested with this (small web app)
@lucas1 http://localhost/youtube_embed/ is returning ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED to me
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@boomzilla That's why you should never reveal your e-mail to anyone