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Didn't have much of an issue when I installed Ubuntu on my dad's laptop with his limited computer experiences, didn't have many issues. Have you never encountered issues with Windo…

You usually require them to assign copyright back to you so you can still use it in your proprietary version.

I don't think there should be much of a surprise, Fedora project is part of Red Hat which is now owned by IBM. Now would they fight to open it back up?

I would agree the big difference is culturally, but I don't think it is really just the licenses that they choose. Free Software people value user freedoms, any license that allows…

It is both. Here[0] is GNU comparing them. The Open Source Initiative also has their definition[1] of Open Source. [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html [1] https://op…

> Even though OSI clearly defines what "open source" means, it is sometimes (often even?) used as a synonym for "source available" Where do they define this? In the OSI definition …

It is a general term for the process of breaking a string into "tokens" which have a sort of meaning. Definitely a common task in compilers, but not limited to it.

See red light cameras. You recieve a ticket through the mail and you get pictures and a video of the violation. There is a lot of people against it and some governments have legist…

the freedom part is not for the software developer, it is for the end user running the software.

Free Software doesn't have to be free to use either (free as in free beer).

last one is sort of basically what GPLv3 has.

It more about how difficult Savannah is to use which is why people use alternatives. Though the GNU project does evaluate whether a code hosting service is suitable. [0] They were …

There was a rust frontend for GCC[0]. Will need a lot to work though. [0]: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/RustFrontEnd

It is because of the license. GTK's license is LGPLv2.1 or later[0]. The important part is later, It means you can update it automatically to any later version, especially if the n…

> And why can't something be open source when it's not free as in free beer There is nothing preventing you from charging a fee for Open Source or even for Free Software. You only …

Aseprite is not Free and Open Source software. It is source available though.

I think they mean free as in free beer. So there can be Free and Open Source Software that you must pay for.

I am a Free Software Foundation member.

Commons Clause is added ontop of an exisiting FOSS license. So it will be whatever requirements the base license plus an anti-commercial restriction preventing others from offering…

The main difference between Free Software and Open Software is what aspect of the software they focus on. Free Software is more on the freedom while Open Source is more on the deve…

Part burnout and part fed up with their development process.

You can sell your free software, RMS even encourages it. The reason a lot of the software is gratis is to lower the barrier to use and spread the software. This makes sense if you …

Free software and open source software cover basically the same software. The main difference is that these communities value different parts of the software. Free Software support…

So did pip, according to Wikipedia[0], it came out in 2011. Did python have a different package manager before this? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)