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  • OpenTofu becomes the real deal

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  • I don’t get it. Why go through the trouble and stay in a license that still allows Hashicorp / IBM to benefit from community contributions?

  • Rust is now a government conspiracy

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  • Do we have a c/keming?

  • ReactOS 0.4.15 released

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  • Who knows? Maybe it just needs a big, big push, like Wayland.

  • Experience with LGPL dependencies?

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  • I’m happy to help! Good luck!

  • Experience with LGPL dependencies?

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  • Put it this way: when you use GIMP to create a picture, your picture doesn’t have to be GPL. The image you created is your creation, you decide what license, if any, it’ll have. What the GPL demand is that if you make a change to the GIMP code and share that improved version, you have to do so as GPL.

    Likewise, people using your language to create their stuff are free to license whatever they create how they please. They do need to share their improvements to your tools as GPL though.

    So perhaps the best option for you is to license the runtime for your language (and some basic libraries) as LGPL so people can link to them with their creations. And everything else that isn’t meant to be linked with the user program at runtime can be licensed as GPL.

  • Experience with LGPL dependencies?

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  • If you plan on making money off of your software, dual license AGPL and commercial. True open source developers can benefit from your work for free and contribute, while clients that would rather not have GPL can pay you.

    The reason for AGPL is to prevent people taking your GPL code, changing it, hosting it as SaaS, and never disclosing their changes as technically they’re not distributing the software.

    Also, your non core business libraries are the most prime candidates for GPL/AGPL. You want to benefit from community contributions to those, not bear the full cost of development and give it away for free without getting anything in return.

  • GIMP 3.0 Released

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  • An organization pivoting hard on their entire software stack because someone didn't like a word in a message somewhere... someone powerful in there didn't arrive by competence alone.

    Considering there's no incentive for a developer donating their work for free to add thin-skinned users to the masses demanding features and fixes, I can't say I disavow them. Anyone can just fork their project to change the name, and handle the hassle.

  • France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

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  • If such a thing would happen, all you need to do is fork the previous, copyleft, version of the code and go on with life as if nothing happened. That’s an economic disincentive for maintainers to try such shenanigans.

  • How people react when they see me work.

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  • I never quite understood the massive hard-on programmers have for splitting hairs.

  • How people react when they see me work.

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  • I can see exactly one use case: context-aware OCR of code.

  • How people react when they see me work.

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  • Late 80s. Little kid me got picked up from school but dad still had work to do, so I join him at work. He notices I'm bored. Sits me in front of a terminal to their Unix mainframe, opens up Pico. I type in stuff there, happy as a clam. Good times.

  • France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

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  • OnlyOffice is certainly more mature as a hosted app. It was born like this, the desktop version was the port. LibreOffice Online is still beta, I think.

    So if your interest is in hosting and online editing, OnlyOffice. Also has an interface that’s very similar to MS Office 365, which can be a pro or con to some. LibreOffice has a more traditional toolbar paradigm.

    You can try both before string up a server to see what you prefer. They’re both copyleft so no chance of a rug pull.

  • France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

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  • So like OnlyOffice and LibreOffice Online?

    Edit: to clarify: both of these products can be self hosted. OnlyOffice’s main business model is to sell hosting services, their software is AGPL v3.

  • France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

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  • I’m not complaining, but why create something from the ground up when they could be improving OnlyOffice or LibreOffice?

  • GIMP 3.0 Released

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  • Honestly all the highlights are really cool. The non destructive editing is a game changer.

  • Memory Corruption in Delphi

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  • Pascal is so awful. Damn, I wish it was dead.

  • How to write a quine

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  • In C too*.

    *for certain compilers, that is.

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  • Cool, thanks for explaining! I take it they don’t work that well on WINE either?

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  • I’m clueless as to why one would want either. Running old hardware peripherals?