»Post Open Source«
https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html
(found via @adrian)
»those freedoms don't actually mean shit to the average end user. only programmers care if they have access to the source code, and most people aren't programmers. and i am a programmer, and i don't give a shit.«
@simulo those freedoms mean something to some people, and people to whom it doesn't mean f*** (like the blog author) are immaterial - if she/he were talking about the law, she'd/he'd be saying "the law means f*** to everybody (i.e. me extrapolated) because everybody hasn't filed a suit in court".
An example comes to mind: Con Kolivas improved the desktop performance of Linux by tweaking the kernel scheduler, and he apparently is a dentist!
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@simulo he is also inaccurate (disingenious?) in using Linux as a free-s/w that rejected GPLv3 - Linux happens to use GPLv2, but is open source! It is unique in open source in having got corporates hooked into it, unlike the BSD Unices - Apple wouldn't have paid BSD developers their due for the kernel it based OS X on, but Redhat et al pay Linux devs - I don't know if that is just down to the GPL!
And free software licenses may yet have some role to play in prohibiting Copilot ...
