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Potentially unpopular opinion: There is no money to be made in consumer desktop operating systems in 2018, so there is little funding for innovation in the consumer desktop operati…

Great. Sounds like freeware to me. Not free software.

Under what license may I utilize this piece of software?

Literally the purpose of the Open Source Initiative is to provide definition to what open source is and is not, and to prevent openwashing by companies and individuals presenting t…

> Where did you get that gem from? From the open source definition: https://opensource.org/osd > As far as I know the only OS License that has been deemed enforceable is GNU Genera…

But again, to be clear, it's not free software according to the commonly accepted definition of free software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Because open source has a very specific definition which the licensing on this application does not conform to. The ability to produce derived works is a key attribute of open sour…

Note: This licensing is really unclear and problematic. https://twitter.com/charlesforman/status/909863346127671296 https://wonderunit.com/thoughts-on-free-and-open-source/

I got my start with programming in QBasic. Now I work at a Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor. FWIW I don't write much code that gets merged into anything important, …

I would have written the headline as "In an Absolute State: Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Could Be a Marker Specific to Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation" but maybe tha…

> City planners assumed everyone would have one, engineers overbuilt roads for them to the detriment of walking or biking, and businesses and residential areas are often far apart …

And the pedestrians go where?

I tend to agree with the comments about height, but re: skyways - they're just kind of weird. They're not public spaces, so they can be exclusionary. And the vibe is just kind of w…

People still use cash?

Wal-mart, with a large IT cost center, benefits from a diverse and competitive cloud infrastructure ecosystem. More at 11.

I still don't understand the concern. Want the name, age, gender, home address, mailing address, party of registration, and voter history from every registered voter in North Carol…