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They should classify the ICANN and the RIRs as gatekeepers too, they are the biggest ones.

I've been a FOSS contributor since the early 2000s, I've stopped contributing and stopped maintaining projects completely in recent years, except for when I am paid, or where there…

They are likely pretty busy with their lawsuit against Vizio, which is going to trial in August and would set a very interesting precedent if won. https://sfconservancy.org/copylef…

I feel like that is quite unlikely. Both the hash and bitwise comparisons read both files in both cases. In the not-equal case the hash reads the entirety of both files, so its slo…

The OpenMoko Freerunner only had 128MB RAM, it was able to run a Linux desktop of the time, Englightenment/E16. There were lots of apps for it too. IIRC the cut down QtMoko distro …

Indeed, the Reproducible Builds community is working on fixing non-deterministic build output https://reproducible-builds.org/

Build reproducibility checks usually use bitwise comparison, not hash comparison. The Reproducible Builds project also wrote diffoscope, which goes quite far with helping identify …

That sounds like a GPLv2 violation: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...

There were 5G towers being attacked during COVID, because of delusional conspiracy theories: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53285610 https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/5g-health…

There is a copy of it on Software Heritage: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...

Some links about GPL & TiVo: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t... https://events19.linuxfoundat…

I don't know what the solution to slop is. Maybe the bubble will implode at some point. Until then, just close down issues/pulls or remove projects from GitHub I guess.

The xz incident was only discovered by accident, not by someone actually verifying the tarball and test cases were not malicious. We still don't have verification of tarball build …

Thats the entire history of companies right there though? They have always socialised costs, privatised profits.

Under the LGPL, statically linked Qt is also fine, as long as the user can relink your proprietary code with a modified Qt library.

> someone (or something) who's concealing their identity has nothing to gain from recognition The xz supply chain attacker hid their real identity, created fakes one and gained rec…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann

Tesla is full of open source software, including the Linux kernel. They probably are GPL violators though. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-... https://s…

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