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liamgm

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    Comment #49171899

    Nah , OpenAI doing it right , defending its interest and valuable employee with both legal and public from competing company negative oppinion.

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    Comment #48641870

    the option to use system webview , electron don't provided that

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    Comment #48640727

    yes the big win from this is the Node API / NAPI support , if you write node_modules in nodejs , electron , raycast , edgejs you can reuse it . https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-…

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    Comment #48177681

    From i read that not "plugin"/module problem but library problem , difference is a lot. It's okay to depend on propietary library but not ok for propietary "plugin"/module. Apple a…

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    Comment #48177617

    Nah you cannot force proprietary library that consumed by fork of viral licenced app to changed it license. For example of this case is Apple Game Porting Toolkit which is fork of …

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    Comment #48176352

    it is okay for agpl3 app to consume propietary library , not the opposite that derived code must be same viral license

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    Comment #48132441

    Yes , Win32 / DirectX in common HAL for games now , just compile your game for windows/steam , you can run everywhere , minimize the headache of doing native game development , lik…

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    Comment #48058332

    xz-tools should scrap and reimplemented the code to the safer one , current one have safety and performance issue.

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    Comment #48031812

    NeXT + Notepad++ or NeXT + iPad + ObjC++ , nice , also Nextpad editor already exist , i found two.

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    Comment #47994239

    I think not only win32 but win32 + directx API, the most used API for gaming industry. Wine , Proton , Crossover, DXVK, VKD3D, D3DMetal , WineD3D, Apple game porting toolkit , Stea…

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    Comment #47919126

    thanks , repurpose this guide for installing swift on latest ubuntu 26.04 lts , below the guide : # Swift deps sudo apt install build-essential sudo apt install unzip gnupg2 libc6-…

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    Comment #47860220

    sadly it's one of the strictly viral license AGPL , i prefer the more permisive one

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    Comment #47860186

    This is good , switching from viral license to more corporate friendly licensig

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    Comment #47785094

    Changed the license of the foss version cal.diy to MIT . Grace in disguise , now enterprise user can host cal.diy without worries of viral licensing .

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    Comment #47486787

    avalonia xpf is xplat wpf runtime on top avalonia, paid. avalonia maui is xplat maui runtime on top avalonia, mit for now. avalonia have they own ui called avaloniaUI also xplat, f…

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    Comment #46964651

    not undercover, kyle is microsoft employee based on his github bio. also if you wanna support linux on gaming, just buy hardware that support steamos like steamdeck, steam machine,…

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    Comment #46782689

    Unity engine , the most popular game engine based on mono. Also gnome software like glib , cairo , harfbuzz prolly used as foundation by all OSes, gui toolkit, programming language…