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I'm curious why they changed from noncommercial permissive to GPL2+ instead of GPL3. If their goal is to prevent misuse of the project by unethical profit-minded entities, GPL3's a…

Oh yeah I just pulled that from a fever dream I had, that sort of thing never happens in real life. > "Embrace, extend, and extinguish", is a phrase that was used internally by Mic…

This presumes that any modifications to "your" code that someone else makes should be none of your business. Seems fine on the surface. But what if your code writes files or commun…

> This is either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid. In order to interpret that one sentence the way you did, you had to: - divorce it from the context where the software was re…

> deliberately obstruct people from using our work as a foundation for successful entrepreneurial efforts No, the GPL does not do this. Obeying the requirement to share source code…

> Would it outrage you for someone else to take your code ... and make millions while you make nothing? ... You shouldn't use the GPL if your response would be, "Bully for them, I …

If your needs are extremely simple (e.g. graphical dialog boxes launched from a shell-script,) then there's zenity (gtk): https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.14/ and kdialog (kde…

I'm very happy more people are coming around to this idea, despite multiple independent discoveries. :) Here's another project that attempts something similar: https://github.com/b…

In the end of 2012 I purchased a Lenovo x230, which ran Debian very well for the past year: deliberation: https://plus.google.com/106336989542410513415/posts/avV5eL1P... follow-up:…

Will your recommendation algorithm be public or secret? Will it be customizable by your users? You mention a bulk import. Will you provide a bulk export, or will I have to keep my …

http://www.depressioncomix.com/posts/g1/ Get professional help immediately. Any/all of your reservations against doing so are misplaced. We can't tell you what meds to take, which …

The author of this article, Tim Kreider, may be better known by some of us Internet folk as purveyor of the fine web-comic "The Pain": http://thepaincomics.com/

Volunteerism, public-funded research projects, and progressive open-source-friendly companies are the best thing we FOSS advocates have until business models that are more appropri…

The authors mischaracterize the "code of conduct" statement first as a redundant legal system, then as a decree that "spreads guilt onto an entire gender," then as an "overarching …

A "business guy" complains about developers allegedly making contemptuous generalizations about clueless business guys by making contemptuous generalizations about developers. He a…

After a lot of deliberation, I just picked up a Lenovo x230 for about $950 pre-tax. Running Linux flawlessly was one of my primary criteria for purchase. It arrives tomorrow so I'l…

Wow, I hate this advice. OP, if you are, like I was, completely repulsed by the constant insistence from everyone that you should go to college so you can toke, drink, party, and f…

Woah is that...? It is! Author Tim Kreider may be better known by some of us Internet folk as purveyor of the fine web-comic "The Pain": http://thepaincomics.com/

Of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan But it will never be put into practice. Thanks in part to the huge amount of money thrown away on the Republican-biased Diebold an…

Been running Ubuntu on my employer-issued MacBook Pro for almost a full year. Ubuntu 10.10 was nearly flawless. Upgraded to 11.04 and lost the ability to change screen brightness e…

For anyone wondering, the video being played is by Cyriak. http://cyriak.co.uk

I sunk a lot of thought into a very similar idea a while ago, but then Kickstarter launched. Since it was successful and "close enough" to mine it kindof took the wind out of my sa…