when faced with people with that position/attitude/minset, i have a phrase for that, grandma gets a smartphone. These people really aren’t made to be using tech.

Have read thru the Fossil web site. Fossil and git are nothing alike. Fossil is not Github in a box. That’s misleading.

It’s ok to place the key/value pairs merkle tree into an sqllite database AND NOT change the philosophy away from what we are used to with git.

Fossil makes me more sold on git. I want the PRs, i want to be able to rebase. I want to be able to fork projects away from it’s parent.

Fossil needs to rewrite if it wants to attract git users. My main thing is portability of PRs and Issues. So when fork a project, the PRs and Issues are also forked. When the original author disappears would be nice to not have to rename the repo, while losing the PRs and Issues.

I read all 3.

The critic has been tricked. He is naive nice person. And therein lies the rub. He is dwelling on rebutalling the bullshit not realizing it’s purpose is to distract away from real issues.

He’s argued twice based on nostalgia rather than on legal merits.

People may have legitimate reasons to want different terms in an open source license. The critic rejects this.

If the critic has nothing to add to the conversation, he should go pound sand. The adults are capable of ripping systems apart and understand how to pieces fit back together and can customizing them without deviating from FOSS and OSD philosophy.

Go with aGPLv3. FUTOs nonsense nonpoints don’t help in the least.

Real issues like pay only in Monero to the maintainer without any KYC. Not in encumbered methods requiring our time and risk of not being able to receive the funds. No NPOs. No middlemen that take cut.

Devs needs to unionize or form gangs. Society is currently telling us to get a job rather than maintain the packages world+dog relies upon. That’s malicious, suicidal, has real consequences, and thus should be our #1 political issue. And we have to change society’s focus by causing a rukcus, not submitting more resumes to create more web sites and smartphone apps or cloud services. Which is just purposefully pushing us towards a job creation program rather than a means to maintain world+dog’s tech base.

There should be a systematic way for companies to pay towards those maintaining their tech stack. Lacking this, the companies can just say they are confused on how to go about paying devs. I can see their POV. That infrastructure needs to exist.

None of these points, violate open source philosophy one bit.

None of these points require yet another license. It’s more about what direction tech community has to take moving forward.

When Python coders create documentation popular options: Sphinx and mkdocs. pandocs for converting a lone vanilla ReStructuredText file.

With Sphinx can create user manual and PDF!

Let me politely add a big warning, there is a learning curve

Any user level questions regarding Sphinx can send my way

There is no bad cringe, there is only cringe. Especially if the draw is the cringe and not whether it’s a good movie or not (e.g. Dead Snow II)

The entire point of cringe is that it’s hard to watch.

Actually watch bad movies on purpose.

this is why FOSS community goes ahead and removes untrustworthy blobs and replaces them with open source alternatives.

The open hardware is an issue, but there are efforts there as well.

They have paid and are paying themselves a never ending salary. The printing is gradual and then all at once.

We will reach infinity, make sure you get your hands on the infinity or trillion dollar note.

There is efforts to make the issues and PRs forkable as well. There is some folks jumping ship. Haven’t researched the new platforms like codeberg

Codeberg is based in Germany hmmm

gitea docs

Can you post a link.

Not familar with it, but will read it if you point me in the right direction

Listen here Stallman, pedo associate Gates is my hero!

Thank you github for not banning me … hopefully not maybe … yet

That big bold Thank you didn’t hurt one bit

Try it on for a change!

Going to come out swinging for MSFT

github provides it’s runners generously for free!

They have not banned me, which is a charm point

Gitlab, on the other hand! Going to whine about that forever

Gitlab deletes your account suddenly without recourse or offers a means to communicate with them to resolve issues civilly.

Oh shiat! You read it?? LOL

Oh man i had to wipe away some tears

Now i need to wash my face

MSFT please send all that love and support by all the bitcoin you are not buying

thank you

– package maintainers

take it that nondisclosure agreement means you have nothing that needs copyright recognition

it's free as in go pound sand if you aren't going to fund maintainers

it doesn’t force them to do anything until devs refuse to work for any company that doesn’t.

i’m with you on agplv3+. The copyright recognition document comes before the resume.

From a corps POV,

FOSS is free as in let 'em starve, not as in funding

Am i wrong?

Wait? Are we pretending the corps are actually the FOSS devs?

A Corp dev, aka a FOSS dev forced into societal job creation servitude making throw away smartphone apps, web sites, and now AI models.

Gets paid to not be a productive person. Is essential what a societal job creation program is. Actually accomplishing anything is a random flaw and not the intent of employing devs.

The alternative would be to fund the dev to concentrate on maintenance efforts of their repos which the entire world depends on.

And if you don’t believe me, just explain one thing. What’s the pip-tools maintainer up to? Cuz it’s definitely not focused on pip-tools maintenance

Would definitely be interested to check in daily to watch what he’s doing. Can throw parties to watch some of the most influential and important people on the planet do the equivalent of digging ditches, refilling them, then doing it again.

No. The FOSS dev would turn around and tell the entire world to go pound sand

The devs are under no obligations to do squat. Which includes responding to any EU requests.

If anyone has a problem with a FOSS project, they are welcome to fork the repo and maintain it themselves. And then send love letters back and forth to the EU.

If anyone is sent a request by the EU, i’m here to help. Some ideas to include in a response.

Shouldn’t EU be focusing on Ukraine and throwing their males into a meat grinder?

EU does not have free speech. Why take them seriously? Why have any expectations of them?

tracked him down and took this

Paid handsomely to hold up that umbrella for his betters

govts print infinite money. All of us are working for free. Their fiat is credits for the company store.

If you think funding projects is bad then the response is to support lobbying project owners to put in malware until FOSS is publically funded.

All we have to do is verbally support it. And cheerlead when it occurs. We don’t actually have to actively do it. It’s a threat which is done in politics all the time.