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GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by nwalfield »

Taler is quite different from, say, bitcoin in that it tries to enable taxation while preserving anonymity. The main webpage has more info: https://www.taler.net/ . Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that a paper has been published yet. But, there are a couple of presentations at https://taler.net/news .

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by technofiend »

This is cool but if you do look at where big investments are being made it's more in smart contract/block chain. Considering the extreme regulatory and DOJ pressure to expose all parties in any fiduciary transaction I'm skeptical we'll ever see an explicitly government-approved system with anonymity.

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by cyphar »

X86BSD wrote: post #4

GPL'ed. Dead in the water. But it looks interesting. Good luck guys!

Linux. Systemd. GNU. YaST. Git. Blender. These are all programs under the GPL, and the reason they are so successful is because of the defense that copyleft provides against proprietary software.

In short, no. Not dead in the water.

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by MatthewWilkes »

So, semver is great and all, but 0.0.x releases just look silly, in my opinion. I've never seen someone zero index the least significant column before though, which makes it look even worse.

Would people actually expect w piece of software marked as version 0.0.0 to be anything more than a placeholder?

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by stephenr »

cyphar wrote: post #5
X86BSD wrote: post #4

GPL'ed. Dead in the water. But it looks interesting. Good luck guys!

Linux. Systemd. GNU. YaST. Git. Blender. These are all programs under the GPL, and the reason they are so successful is because of the defense that copyleft provides against proprietary software. In short, no. Not dead in the water.

Taler uses various *GPL3+ licenses, including parts under AGPL3+

Linux, Systemd, Git, and Blender are all (L)GPL v2, and none are AGPL.

There are thousands of open source projects I could name that are far reaching and have enormous success, released under permissive licenses such as Apache, BSD, MIT, etc.

If the system wasn't so fucked I'd down vote you.

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by zaro »

cyphar wrote: post #5
X86BSD wrote: post #4

GPL'ed. Dead in the water. But it looks interesting. Good luck guys!

Linux. Systemd. GNU. YaST. Git. Blender. These are all programs under the GPL, and the reason they are so successful is because of the defense that copyleft provides against proprietary software. In short, no. Not dead in the water.

While parent post may be overstating , GPL does hinder software adoption now days.

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

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Post by stephenr »

MatthewWilkes wrote: post #7

So, semver is great and all, but 0.0.x releases just look silly, in my opinion. I've never seen someone zero index the least significant column before though, which makes it look even worse. Would people actually expect w piece of software marked as version 0.0.0 to be anything more than a placeholder?

0.x.x means pre-release to me (as in, sure - play with it, but don't fucking rely on it working).

0.0.0 is bizarre though.

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